Garmin G1000 Series, Pilot'S Manual

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Garmin G1000 Pilot’s Guide for the Diamond DA40
190-00592-00 Rev. A 2-26
PRIMARY FLIGHT DISPLAY
To enable/disable topo data:
1. Press the INSET softkey.
2. Press the TOPO softkey to display topographic
land colors, which represent the rise and fall
of land elevation.
3. Press the
TOPO
softkey again to remove topo
data from the map.
NOTE: When topographic data is removed from
the display, all cartographic data is automatically
removed and the Jeppesen Nav Data is presented
on a black background.
To enable/disable terrain data:
1. Press the
INSET
softkey.
2. Press the TERRAIN softkey to display color-coded
terrain tiles, which are based upon the aircraft
current altitude. A mountain icon appears above
the zoom range at the lower right corner of the
map, showing that terrain is selected.
Red
(warning) – Land elevation is within 100
ft of the aircraft current altitude or above.
Yellow (caution) – Land elevation is greater
than 100 ft to 1,000 ft below aircraft alti-
tude.
Black
– Land elevation greater than 1,000 ft
below aircraft altitude.
3. Press the TERRAIN softkey again to remove the
terrain data from the map.
NOTE: Terrain data is not displayed when the
aircraft latitude is greater than 75˚ N or 60˚ S.
NOTE: Refer to the Appendix for more details
about terrain.
NOTE: Refer to the Optional Equipment section
for more details about weather options.
To enable/disable Stormscope (optional),
NEXRAD (optional), or XM lightning
(optional) data:
1. Press the
INSET
softkey. Press the
STRMSCP
(optional), NEXRAD (optional), or XM LTNG
(optional) softkey to display weather informa-
tion.
2. Press the
STRMSCP, NEXRAD,
or
XM LTNG
soft-
key again to remove the weather information
from the map.
To pan the map:
NOTE:
The
joystick
on the PFD operates inde-
pendently from the one on the MFD.
1. Push in the joystick to display the panning pointer.
This allows the pilot to move the map beyond its
current limits without adjusting the range.
2. Push in and move the
joystick
to pan the map
in the general direction of the desired location.
When the pointer is placed on an object, the name
of the object is highlighted for approximately four
seconds (even if the name was not originally
displayed on the map). This feature applies to
everything displayed on the map except for route
lines.
3. Push in the joystick again to cancel the panning
function and return to the present position on
the map.
NOTE: The airspace boundary stays highlighted
for approximately four seconds before returning
to normal shading.