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SkyView Pilot’s User Guide - Revision M
Pressing NRST in Map Panning Mode will cause the list of nearest airports and other aviation
features to be based on the location of the Map Pointer instead of the aircraft. This noted at
the top of the Nearest Window.
Flight Planning
A Flight Plan consists of a sequence of one or more waypoints. A maximum of 99 waypoints are
supported. The great circle track between each waypoint defines the individual legs of the
Flight Plan. When a Flight Plan is active and shown on the Map, the current leg is magenta in
color. Future legs are white.
HSI Guidance is provided to the active leg of an active Flight Plan on the PFD when GPS
0
is
selected as the navigation source.
Waypoints may be entered into the current Flight Plan by direct entry from the Flight Plan
Menu, by pressing ADD->FPL from the Nearest or Info windows, by using the MENU>ADD
POINT TO FPL, or by importing a Flight Plan file from a USB memory stick in GPX format.
Operations are performed on the flight plan via the FPL MENU.
SkyView supports one Flight Plan at a time. The FPL button in the MAP Menu remains
highlighted whenever a Flight Plan is loaded. This Flight Plan can be manipulated, and it can
provide navigation if it is activated, and it can be exported to a USB memory stick for later
retrieval. Importing a Flight Plan from a USB memory stick causes the currently loaded Flight
Plan, if any, to be overwritten. When the
feature is used, the current Flight Plan is
temporarily “overwritten” by the
action. When the
is cancelled, that previous Flight
Plan is reloaded, but navigation is not automatically reactivated. To reactivate the reloaded
Flight Plan, press the ACTIVATE button in the MAP Menu.
There are two types of leg transitions. A flyby leg transition causes the aircraft to fly by the
leg’s destination waypoint in order to smoothly transition from one leg to the next with no
overshoot. This is the default transition type for each leg. An overfly transition causes the
aircraft to fly directly over the waypoint before transitioning to the next leg. The transition type
can be selected for each individual waypoint transition in the Flight Plan.
The Flight Plan is synchronized across all displays. A Flight Plan is also preserved on each
display over a power-cycle, but navigation is not active after the Flight Plan has been restored
upon start-up.
SkyView imports/exports Flight Plans in GPX format. See
http://wiki.dynonavionics.com/Importing_Flight_Plans
for information about
specific aviation software products that are known to output compatible GPX files.
Additionally, a technical reference for this format can be found at
http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp
. There are many utilities available that
convert other formats to GPX format and vice-versa.
When parsing GPX files, SkyView looks uses the first 99 route points (<rtept> tags)
within the first route (<rte> tag) in the GPX file. All other data is ignored.
