Garmin G1000 Series, Pilot'S Manual

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Garmin G1000 Pilot’s Guide for the Diamond DA40
190-00592-00 Rev. A 7-85
MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY
TRIP PLANNING PAGE
The Trip Planning Page calculates trip statistics, fuel
statistics, and other statistics for a specified Direct-to,
point-to-point, or flight plan based on automatic or man-
ual input of data.
Figure 7-64 Trip Planning Page Menu
Trip Planning
Trip planning allows you to view desired track (DTK),
distance (DIS), estimated time enroute (ETE), estimated
time of arrival (ETA), and enroute safe altitude (ESA)
for a Direct-to, point-to-point between two specified
waypoints, or for any programmed flight plan. This option
also displays the sunrise/sunset times for your destination
waypoint (for the selected departure date).
To perform trip planning operations:
1. Select the AUX-TRIP PLANNING page.
2. The current page mode is displayed at the
top of the page: ‘AUTOMATIC’ or ‘MANUAL’.
To change the page mode, press the
AUTO or
MANUAL softkey.
3. For Direct-to planning, press the WPTS softkey
and verify that the from waypoint field indi-
cates P.POS (present position). If necessary,
go to the Page Menu and select ‘Set WPT to
Present Position’ to display P.POS. Press the
ENT key and the flashing cursor moves to the
‘to’ waypoint field. Turn the
small and large
FMS
knobs to enter the identifier of the ‘to’
waypoint and press the ENT key to accept the
waypoint. OR,
4. For point-to-point planning, turn the
small and large FMS
knobs to enter the
identifier of the from waypoint. Once
the waypoints identifier is entered, press
the
ENT
key to accept the waypoint. The
flashing cursor moves to the ‘to’ waypoint.
Again, turn the
small and large FMS knobs to
enter the identifier of the ‘to’ waypoint and
press the
ENT
key to accept the waypoint.
OR,
5. For flight plan leg planning, press the FPL
softkey and turn the small FMS knob to select
the desired flight plan (already stored in
memory), by number. Turn the
large FMS
knob
to highlight the ‘LEG’ field and turn the small
FMS knob to select the desired leg of the flight
plan, or select ‘CUM’ to apply trip planning
calculations to the entire flight plan.
6. Turn the large FMS knob to highlight the depar-
ture time (DEP TIME) field.
7. Turn the small and large FMS knobs to enter
the departure time. Press the ENT key when
finished. (Departure time may be entered in
local or UTC time, depending upon unit set-
tings).