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Old September 9th 07, 04:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Peter Clark
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Default GNS430W: Parallel offset course feature

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 06:27:08 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


I guess all I'm essentially asking is, "Can't you just do airways on the
VOR?" like they always did?


Can't we use NDB and A-N ranges like they used to?

Sure, you can use NAV1 and fly VOR and flip-flops to identify
intersections, but when there should be a perfectly good way to do it
with the automation available there's no reason to do it the hard way.
It's a trivial amount of additional code for the 430/530 series - the
G1000 is basically a headless 430. It's Garmin's "nobody does
airways" attitude that's preventing it.