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Aviation GPS Quick Reference
Start outdoors, with a clear view of open sky. Imagine you're flying to a
nearby airport to practice landings. (If you're practicing on foot or by car,
substitute a restaurant for an airport. Pick one a few blocks away. While
learning, navigation in too small an area constantly triggers alarms.
1. Insert the MMC and batteries. Mount AirMap on the yoke. Connect to
electric power and the active antenna. (See install details on page 11.)
2. Turn on the AirMap: press and release
PWR key. Press EXIT to clear
each of the two warning and copyright message screens.
3. Opening screen– displays map of North America at the 4,000 nautical
mile zoom range. Rotate through four main Page screens (Map Page, Sat-
ellite Status Page, Position Page and HSI Navigation Page) by repeatedly
pressing
PAGES key. Switch pages to display Satellite Status Page.
4. Wait while unit locates satellites and calculates current position. Process
is visible on Satellite Page. This takes an average of 1 minute or less with
sky unobstructed by terrain or structures. When the unit acquires position,
a tone sounds and a position acquired message appears.
5. With position acquired, press
PAGES key to display Map Page, which
shows a bird's eye view of the earth. You can move around the map by:
Zoom in closer to see greater detail: press
ZIN (zoom in key.)
Zoom out to see more area, less detail: press
ZOUT (zoom out key.)
Scroll map north, south, east or west using arrow keys ↑ ↓ → ← .
To stop scrolling and return to current position on map, press
EXIT key.
6. At the airport, set a waypoint (Wpt 001) at your current position so
you can navigate back here: press
ENT|ENT. Waypoint symbol and
"001" appears.
7. Zoom/scroll map to find a nearby airport to go to. Use arrow keys to
center cursor cross-hair over the airport symbol or wherever you want
to enter the pattern.
8. Navigate to airport: press
MENU|↓ to GO TO CURSOR|ENT|EXIT, and take
off. Follow dotted course line on Map Page or Course Arrow on HSI Naviga-
tion Page. (Remember to "steer to the needle.")
9. At airport, Arrival Alarm goes off; to clear it, press
EXIT. Enter pattern
and land. Cancel navigation: press
MENU|MENU|↓ to CANCEL NAVIGA-
TION
|ENT|← to YES|ENT.
10. Return to Wpt 1 by Navigate To Waypoint: press
FIND|↓ to MY
WAYPOINTS|ENT|ENT. Use ↑ or ↓ to select Wpt 001, press ENT|ENT; follow
navigation displays.
11. Back home, Arrival Alarm goes off; press
EXIT. Cancel navigation:
press
MENU|MENU|↓ to CANCEL NAVIGATION|ENT|← to YES|ENT.
12. To turn off AirMap, press and hold
PWR key for three seconds.