GNS430 on the Airway

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:10:13 GMT, wrote:

Robert M. Gary wrote:

That's one major limitation of the Garmin products. Not having airways
is very, very irritating especially to those of us that fly in high
traffic areas (such as L.A.). When an approach controller machine guns
you with a new 6 airway route without giving you any intersections it
leaves you jumping for your chart. When I had my king unit, I would
just put the pink airplane line on top of the blue airway line and I
was done. I hope Garmin addresses this someday.

-Robert

The present 400/500s don't have enough memory. The so-called WAAS mod
will provide a whole lot horsepower. I suspect then they could provide
an airway database, but they sure ain't talking.

Garmin doesn't care about airways and thinks they're obsolete in the
GPS direct world. They don't even have them in the G1000 system and
have said they aren't planning on adding it, and that box likely has
as much if not more power than the WAAS upgrades will have. It really
is unfortunate, it shouldn't be that hard to have flight plan routing
a-la Honeywell FMS systems (waypoint, airway, waypoint, have the box
fill in the intermediate points) in these boxes, especially when the
design is done from the ground up and could include that functionality
with apparently not much additional work.