Garmin GPS 400W, Pilot'S Manual & Reference

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7 - NRST PAGES
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Nearest Airports
Navigating to a Nearby Waypoint
The NRST pages can be used in conjunction with
the direct-to function to quickly set a course to a
nearby facility. This feature can be a real time saver
compared to retrieving information from the database
using the WPT pages. More importantly, it instantly
provides navigation to the nearest airport in case of an
in-flight emergency.
To select a nearby airport, VOR, NDB, intersection or user
waypoint as a direct-to destination:
1. Use the flashng cursor to scroll through a NRST
page lst and hghlght the desred nearest
waypont.
2. Press direct-to to dsplay the select drect-to
waypont page.
3. Press ENT to accept the selected waypont’s
dentfier and press ENT a second tme (wth
“Actvate?” hghlghted) to begn navgatng
to the selected waypont.
Nearest Airport Page
The
nearest airport page
displays the identifier,
symbol, bearing and distance to the 25 nearest airports
(within 200 nautical miles of your present position).
For each airport listed, the
nearest airport page also
indicates the best available approach, common traf-
fic advisory frequency (CTAF) and the length of the
longest runway.
Best Available
Approach
Airport Identifier,
Symbol, Bearing To
and Distance To
First Page
in NRST group
Tower or CTAF
Frequency and
Longest Runway
Scroll Bar
The nearest airport page can be configured to
exclude shorter runways or undesirable runway
surface types, so that the corresponding airports do
not appear on the list. You may wish to use this feature
to exclude seaplane bases or runway lengths which
would be difficult or impossible to land upon. See Sec
9 - Nearest Airport Criteria for additional details.
The nearest airport page may be used to quickly
tune the COM transceiver to a nearby airport. The
selected frequency is placed in the standby field of the
COM window and activated using the
COM flip-flop
key.