PFD Operation
SkyView Pilot’s User Guide - Revision M
4-23
traffic targets that are shown to the left or right of the center of the attitude indicator are not
directly ahead of you.
Traffic displayed on the PFD page can be configured to include just Traffic
Advisories (TA), all targets, or no targets. See the SkyView Installation Guide for
information on how to configure how traffic is displayed.
Note that traffic is not visually scaled for distance. In other words, targets always appear the
same size on the Synthetic Vision depiction, no matter how far away they are. However, yellow
Traffic Advisory Targets (threats) are displayed larger than the diamond shaped Proximity
Advisory Targets and Non-Threat Targets to accentuate their increased importance.
Figure 39 - Traffic Advisory on
Synthetic Vision
Figure 40 - Proximity Advisory on
Synthetic Vision
Figure 41 - Non Threat on Synthetic
Vision
Additionally, yellow Traffic Advisory targets contain a number within them that represents how
far away they are (in miles, nautical miles, or kilometers, depending on your system setup) from
your aircraft. The yellow Traffic Advisory target in Figure 38, for example, is 3 miles away, to the
left, above, and descending.
Figure 42 - Traffic Alert
When a Traffic Advisory target is present, a yellow Traffic Alert Message appears on the PFD
Page near the top of the IAS tape. Note that Traffic Advisory targets behind your aircraft will
generate alerts. They can be seen on the Map Page, but will not be visible on the Synthetic
Vision display as Synthetic Vision only shows the view in front of the aircraft.
Bearing Source 1 (BRG 1)
Press this button to cycle through the available bearing sources for the first bearing needle.
NAV Source (NAVSRC)
SkyView’s Navigation Mapping Software course information can be displayed on
the SkyView HSI display when it is navigating to an active waypoint. It is always the
GPS
0
source.
Press this button to cycle the HSI through the different navigation data sources that are
connected to the SkyView system (e.g., GPS 0-4 and NAV 1-4). Other than GPS0, which is
sourced from SkyView’s own Navigation Mapping Software, these are all external navigation
devices such as other portable GPS units (such as the Garmin 496), panel mounted IFR GPS
