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I thought I was frustrated by Garmin not clearly indicating CTAF's in
their database, but found out that the frustration was due to my not knowing where to look. While maybe no one else will suffer from this problem, I'll take the risk of exposing my error in case someone else may benefit. On my Garmin 196, the CTAF is not listed on the Comm tab that goes with the airport. This normally isn't a problem since usually the CTAF can be inferred from other frequencies listed on the Communication tab, but for some airports (KTVL and O57 are the ones that bugged me), there was confusion and I wished Garmin had marked the CTAF with a C or similar. Some research made me realize that I was looking in a logical, but wrong place. The CTAF is on the main page for the airport, not on the Comm tab. A related problem that also could be catastrophic in an emergency is looking for the PCL frequency on the COMM tab. It's on the RUNWAY tab -- and for some airports like O57 it is not the same as the CTAF. I don't know why the FAA allows different frequencies for CTAF and PCL, but that is the case. Hoping this is of some help. |
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