Garmin G1000 gets airways

Dan Luke wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote:


Mine was installed today; I'll report on how it works this weekend.


OK, I couldn't wait, so on the way to work this morning I went and fired up
the G1000 on the ramp.

The airways flightplan feature worked fine once I figured out that there was
an error in the new Garmin Cockpit Reference Guide. It mentions a "Load
Airways" softkey that never appears, and fails to mention that you have to
press the MENU hardkey at some point to get the "Load Airways" option. Don't
they user-test these manuals?

Short story: you put in the entry fix, airway id and exit point (from a menu)
and you're done. The airway id.exit fix is then in your flight plan. The
airway is in white, with its number, on the course line on the moving map.

Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

"B" wrote:


Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

Not on the map. When you're doing the airway exit part of the flight plan,
it nominates all the waypoints on the portion you will be flying.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:16:52 -0700, B wrote:

Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

Yep, it puts every fix from entry to exit in the flight plan.

"Peter Clark" wrote:


Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

Yep, it puts every fix from entry to exit in the flight plan.

???

On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

"Peter Clark" wrote:


Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

Yep, it puts every fix from entry to exit in the flight plan.

???

On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.

On the 480, there's an expand (XPND) function which toggles between just
showing the airway endpoints and showing all the intermediate fixes.
Perhaps there is the same on the 1000?

"Roy Smith" wrote:


On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.

On the 480, there's an expand (XPND) function which toggles between just
showing the airway endpoints and showing all the intermediate fixes.
Perhaps there is the same on the 1000?

Perhaps.

I'm taking the new SW on a shakedown cruise tomorrow. I'll check it and see.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:
"Peter Clark" wrote:


Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

Yep, it puts every fix from entry to exit in the flight plan.


???

On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.

I don't know about Garmin but the ARINC format for that route would be:

KBFM..LOXY..V198.QUINCY..KTLH

(two dots for direct)

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:45:44 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:


"Peter Clark" wrote:


Does it populate every fix along the airway from ABC to XYZ?

Yep, it puts every fix from entry to exit in the flight plan.

???

On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.


What is QUINCY? I can't locate it, and I thought all intersections were
five characters.
Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:13:55 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:


On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.


What is QUINCY? I can't locate it, and I thought all intersections were
five characters.

I can only presume it's QUNCY but QUNCY doesn't exist on V198. Perhaps
he meant QUILL but I would have suspected the routing would have been
KBFM LOXLY V198 SZW KTLH. The system should have entered waypoints
for BRATT PENSI INBRD BAKOS CEW CORKY DEFUN CHEWS MAI SNEAD QUILL and
SZW if that's what was entered with the "LD ARWY" function. Course, he
was doing it from the PFD instead of the MFD, so it would be
interesting to know what was depected on the map and in the MFD's FPL
screen. I've only just installed these on my G1000s and haven't had
any chance to play with them myself. I do know from doing that
though, when entered via MFD it shows a leg of the flight plan as
"AIRWAY entry exit" and depicts the various waypoints on the map.

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:40:46 -0400, Peter Clark
wrote:

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:13:55 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:


On the flightplan I entered this morning. It listed

KBFM LOXLY V198.QUINCY KTLH

The fixes between LOXLY and QUINCY were not shown.


What is QUINCY? I can't locate it, and I thought all intersections were
five characters.

I can only presume it's QUNCY but QUNCY doesn't exist on V198. Perhaps
he meant QUILL but I would have suspected the routing would have been
KBFM LOXLY V198 SZW KTLH. The system should have entered waypoints
for BRATT PENSI INBRD BAKOS CEW CORKY DEFUN CHEWS MAI SNEAD QUILL and
SZW if that's what was entered with the "LD ARWY" function. Course, he
was doing it from the PFD instead of the MFD, so it would be
interesting to know what was depected on the map and in the MFD's FPL
screen. I've only just installed these on my G1000s and haven't had
any chance to play with them myself. I do know from doing that
though, when entered via MFD it shows a leg of the flight plan as
"AIRWAY entry exit" and depicts the various waypoints on the map.

I see I posted to the wrong person. Hopefully Dan will see this and
clarify.

The CNX80 also populates all the fixes, as was pointed out by someone else.
Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)