Direct To a waypoint in flightplan on Garmin 430

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:23:54 -0500, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

wrote:

If you go direct, direct, enter it will activate the next leg rather
than direct.to

So I skip to the next waypoint with "direct", "direct", "enter"? And this
will give me the DTK etc. from my current position to that waypoint?

Perfect! Thanks for knowing this little box so well...

No. You only use "direct direct enter" if you want to go to the next
way point on the leg described in the flight plan. When the controller
clears you "direct to xxx" you want to select xxx and then press
"direct enter enter".

wrote:

If you go direct, direct, enter it will activate the next leg rather
than direct.to

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...

So I skip to the next waypoint with "direct", "direct", "enter"? And this
will give me the DTK etc. from my current position to that waypoint?

Doesn't work on the sim. Of course it may be that my copy of the sim is
dated.

"direct", "direct", "enter" activates the *current* leg of the FPL. It
doesn't skip a leg.
"direct", "direct", "enter" and "direct", "enter", "enter" will toggle
between direct nav to the current waypoint and the active leg to the current
waypoint. Neither appears to change the current waypoint.

So...

Let's assume that the flight plan currently in the GPS is SBJ LANNA BOPLY
ETX ABE. The active waypoint - that to which we're currently flying - is
SBJ. ATC clears me direct to LANNA.

Would "direct" "direct" "enter" change the waypoint to LANNA? Or would it
leave it as SBJ? Or would it do something different?

"direct", "direct" offers to activate the leg from [wherever] to SBJ, not
LANNA.

The method shown in the manual for doing what you want is:

1 "direct"
2 rotate large knob to FPL field (usually three clicks clock)
3 rotate small knob to desired point (two clicks clock for the one beyond
current),
4 "enter"

So there is, apparently, one more step on the Garmin than on the B/K. It
would make more sense IMHO if the "select direct-to waypoint" page defaulted
to highlighting the FPL field and omitting step 2.

It's not much shorter than:

FPL
press for cursor
rotate large knob to desired point (two clicks clock for the one beyond
current),
"direct"
"enter"
"enter"

which is, I guess, what you were doing.

Julian Scarfe

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com...
On the Bendex/King gear on which I learned, it was easy to skip to another
way point on the flight plan. And this was very convenient, as it comes up
fairly often when IFR, at least for me. For example, I'll very often be
told "direct SBJ" when leaving CDW, only get "direct ..." to the next
waypoint well before I reach SBJ.

All I needed to do was select "direct to", and I could then "knob" my way
through the waypoints on the flight plan. Pressing either "enter" or
"direct to" (I forget which; it's been a way) would have me direct to the
proper waypoint within the flight plan.

On the Garmin with which I fly now, though, I've only found a more
cumbersome way: Select the flight plan button to view the plan, cursor on,
knob to the proper entry, and then press "enter".

This is more work, and more head-down time. I was able to work the B/K gear
w/o looking if I was merely skipping to the next waypoint (press, turn one
click, press). I cannot do that with the Garmin as I need to cycle through
the flight plan once the cursor is on.

But...I vague remember learning a better way to do this with the Garmin.
Does anyone happen to know what it is?

Thanks...

Andrew


I cannot recommend enough the Garmin video for the unit. They really had some
nice hints that cover how to do things the quick way in it.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:17:20 -0500, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

Hit the Direct button.
Rotate the large knob until the FPL field is highlighted.
Rotate the small knob until the desired waypoint is highlighted.
Hit Enter twice.