Avidyne IFD540, Pilot'S Manual

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highlight the frequency field and push the knob to nominate it into
the standby slot.
Depending on the type of facility being displayed, there are up to
7 category fields of information associated with the facility that
can be expanded (via the + symbol) or compacted (via the –
symbol) for additional details:
•
General – describes the facility (e.g. “Public
Towered Airport”), provides a thumbnail map of
the facility (the orientation and range of the
thumbnail map cannot be adjusted), provides
coordinates, elevation and magnetic variation
data, provides sunrise/sunset, provides density
altitude or access to a calculator to compute it,
provides fuel information, if applicable;
•
Communications – provides a list of frequencies
associated with the facility. Any one on the list can
be nominated into the #1 standby slot by either
touching it (first touch will highlight the field if
necessary, second touch nominates it into the #1
standby) or by using the bottom right IFD knob to
highlight the desired frequency and then push the
knob to nominate it into the #1 standby slot;
•
Runways – identifies the known runways at the
airport to include orientation, length and width, and
a thumbnail map of the runways. When an
individual runway row has been selected via touch
or the bottom right IFD knob, it can further expand
to provide surface type, coordinates of the
endpoints, runway bearing and elevation and the
graphical depiction will show lighting;
•
Nearby Navaids – when the info page fix is an
airport, this panel is present and contains navaids
within 40nm of the airport, up to a maximum of 10
navaids. Each navaid row displays the navaid
identifier, distance from the Info fix, cardinal
direction from the Info fix, and navaid frequency.
Possible navaids are VOR, VORTAC, TACAN,
VOR/DME, DME and NDBs that are not marker
beacons. If the navaid has a VHF frequency, the
cursor will go to that field and the nav radio can be