Garmin GDL 69A, Pilot'S Manual Addendum

Page 1: ...400W 500W Series Garmin Optional Displays Pilot s Guide Addendum For GDL 69 69A XM Satellite Datalink GTX 330 330D TIS Garmin TAWS GPS 500W GNS 530W...

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Page 3: ...GPS altitude to determine aircraft altitude CAUTION The Jeppesen database incorporated in the Garmin 400W 500W Series Units must be updated regularly in order to ensure that its information is curren...

Page 4: ...de 18 TAF Page 18 TFR Information 18 Lightning LTNG 19 Cell Movement CELL MOVE 20 Winds Aloft 21 Winds Aloft Altitude 22 Section 3 XM AUX Pages 22 XM Information Page 22 XM WX Timestamps 23 Section 4...

Page 5: ...000 feet below to 3500 feet above the requesting aircraft The TIS is a ground based service that displays nearby aircraft on your 400W 500W series display For the TIS feature to inform you of a nearby...

Page 6: ...to the ATCRBS TIS operation may be intermittent during turns or other maneuvering TIS is dependent on two way line of sight communication between the aircraft and the Mode S radar Whenever the struct...

Page 7: ...monitored by maintenance personnel other than ATC it is suggested that malfunctions be reported in the following ways By telephone to the nearest Flight Service Station FSS facility By FAA Form 8000...

Page 8: ...g Traffic Advisories only reduces the nuisance alerting due to proximate aircraft For example when the first Traffic Advisories appears on the TIS display the user is alerted audibly So long as a sing...

Page 9: ...elve seconds the TRFC RMVD banner will indicate that traffic has been removed from the display due to the age of the data being too old to coast for the time period after 12 seconds from the last rece...

Page 10: ...ound speed is less than 30 knots or when an approach is active Traffic Page TIS Traffic data are displayed on two 400W 500W Series unit pages the Traffic Page and the Map Page The 500W Series unit can...

Page 11: ...trfc All traffic is displayed on the Map Page TA PA Only traffic advisories and proximity advisories are displayed on the Map Page TA only Only traffic advisories are displayed on the Map Page From th...

Page 12: ...the bearing and distance to the pointer from your present position Displaying traffic range and altitude separa tion using the Map Panning feature To activate the panning feature and pan the map disp...

Page 13: ...tallation see your installer for detailed criteria information traffic is displayable on the Traffic Page in oper ating mode If the system fails the power up test the NO DATA DATA FAIL or FAILED messa...

Page 14: ...ures Once the aircraft is airborne determined by system configuration at the time of installation the system switches from standby mode to operating mode The 400W 500W Series unit displays OPER in the...

Page 15: ...tellite Radio a company separate and independent from Garmin Corporation Have your radio hardware IDs ready before contact ing XM Satellite Radio During the process you can select services for subscri...

Page 16: ...ation of the GDL 69 69A Next Generation Weather Radar NEXRAD METARs symbols METAR Lightning LTNG Cell Movement CELL MOVE and Winds Aloft WINDS are displayed on the NAV pages The types of products avai...

Page 17: ...of the NAV page group In the 500W series TFR boundaries are also shown on the NAV main page You can obtain more information about a TFR by bringing up the map cursor moving the map cursor to within t...

Page 18: ...ge of the NAV page group displayed look at the upper left corner of the page Under the page title XM Weather either NEXRAD or another weather product appears If the word is NEXRAD do nothing NEXRAD we...

Page 19: ...s awareness NEXRAD base reflectivity does not provide suf ficient information to determine cloud layers or precipitation characteristics hail vs rain etc NEXRAD base reflectivity is sampled at the min...

Page 20: ...TAR Legend 1 Press the MENU key to display the Page Menu 2 Turn the large or small right knob to select Display legend 3 Press ENT to display the METAR symbols legend Press the CLR key to remove the M...

Page 21: ...iewing the WPT page group press CLR and turn the large right knob to select the WPT page group 2 Turn the small right knob until the Textual METAR page appears 3 To select another airport press the sm...

Page 22: ...her forecast for a particular airport The format is similar to that used for METARS but describes a weather forecast rather than current weather at the particular airport TFR Information Areas with TF...

Page 23: ...AM However the information shown on the TFR Information page is sufficient to let you comply with the Temporary Flight Restriction by avoiding the affected area Active Time This field is for the begin...

Page 24: ...product is displayed 2 If another weather product rather than CELL MOVE is shown press the small right CRSR knob to highlight the product name such as NEXRAD Turn the small right knob to change to CE...

Page 25: ...in the direction from which the wind is coming Barbs which are used singly and in combinations have the following values A short line 5 knots A long line 10 knots A pennant triangle 50 knots For examp...

Page 26: ...installed two or three pages are inserted into the 500W 500W s AUX page group Here we discuss the two pages that are inserted regardless of whether the XM receiver is a GDL 69 or GDL 69A XM Informatio...

Page 27: ...and 500W series only support a subset of the Avia tor LT service from XM Satellite Radio Product Aviator LT Aviator NEXRAD Radar Coverage Precipitation Type at surface TFRs METARs TAFs Winds Aloft Ce...

Page 28: ...Artist Song Title Category and provides an indication of signal strength A bar graph next to the antenna symbol describes the signal strength Maximum signal strength is shown by three full bars The XM...

Page 29: ...the channel selections 3 Turn the small right knob to highlight a chan nel 4 Press ENT to select the highlighted channel for listening A triangle will point to the song currently being played Part Two...

Page 30: ...en channels may be saved as presets to easily return to your favorite channels 1 While viewing the XM Audio page selected the desired channel 2 While the desired channel is highlighted press the MENU...

Page 31: ...ve the highlight and the small right knob to select a number 3 Press the ENT key to make a selection The selected channel will now play and is dis played in the window at the bottom of the display Dis...

Page 32: ...o page press the MENU key Turn the large right knob to highlight Display Artist In List 2 Press the ENT key Display Title In List The Titles of the songs in the range of displayed channels can be show...

Page 33: ...knob to highlight EnableAudio Output or Disable Audio Output 2 Press the ENT key to perform the highlighted action Pressing the CLR key toggles the audio output Change Volume The XM Audio volume may b...

Page 34: ...30 Part Two Section 4 XM Audio Blank Page 190 00356 30 Rev C...

Page 35: ...GPS position solution The system must have a valid terrain obstacle airport terrain database Limitations NOTE The data contained in the TAWS databases comes from government agencies Garmin accurately...

Page 36: ...redicted dangerous terrain conditions Detailed alert modes are described later in this section Baro Corrected Altitude Baro corrected altitude or indicated altitude is de rived by adjusting the altime...

Page 37: ...view To change to a 360 view repeat step 1 select View 360 and press ENT Seven display ranges are available allowing for a more complete view of the surrounding area To change the display range 1 Sel...

Page 38: ...al TAWS Inhibit Control An optional installation is allowed for providing an external TAWS Inhibit switch Pressing the external TAWS Inhibit switch toggles the TAWS inhibit on and off in the same mann...

Page 39: ...he aircraft altitude Black Terrain between 100 ft and 1000 ft below the aircraft altitude Yellow Terrain above or within 100 ft below the aircraft altitude Red Terrain Altitude Color Correlation for T...

Page 40: ...from government agencies Garmin accu rately processes and cross validates the data but cannot guarantee the accuracy and completeness of the data The terrain obstacle databases are contained on a dat...

Page 41: ...terrain data card and insert the new card into the right most slot of the 500W Series unit 4 Turn on the 500W Series unit and verify that the TAWS system passes self test Terrain Obstacle Database Are...

Page 42: ...ns and pop up alerts Some aural messages are configurable during installation of the system For a summary of aural messages see the TAWS Alert Summary table in Appendix A NOTE TAWS Caution Alerts are...

Page 43: ...inhibited when the aircraft is below 200 feet AGL while within 0 5 NM of the approach runway or is below 125 feet AGL while within 1 0 NM of the runway Premature Descent Alerting PDA The TAWS system i...

Page 44: ...speed The parameters for the alert as defined by TSO C151b are shown in the Descent Rate graph PULL UP PULL UP SINK RATE ESCENT 2ATE Height Above Terrain Feet Excessive Descent Rate Graph Excessive D...

Page 45: ...en the following conditions are met The height above the terrain is less than 700 feet The distance from the departure airport is 2 NM or less The heading change from the heading at the time of depart...

Page 46: ...rea the an nunciation TER N A is generated in the annunciation window When the GPS signal is re established and the aircraft is within the database coverage area the TER N A annunciation is removed TE...

Page 47: ...n Ahead Pull Up Terrain Ahead Pull Up Forward Looking Terrain Avoidance Warning for Terrain Obstacle Ahead Obstacle Ahead or Caution Obstacle Caution Obstacle Forward Looking Terrain Avoidance Caution...

Page 48: ...not be a safety of flight factor Reference FAR 91 223 TAWS Caution indicates terrain or obstacle nearby If possible visually locate the terrain or obstacle for avoid ance A TAWS warning may follow a T...

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