GNS430W: Parallel offset course feature

"Mike Adams" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote:

"Peter Clark" wrote in
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 17:11:45 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
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"B" wrote in message
Airways from a GPS: That's like buying a $1000 stereo and listening
to monaural AM radio. :~(

Maybe where you're flying. In the northeast (and even entering the
northeast, pretty much from PA east from what I've seen) clearances
aren't "direct", they're KLOU IIU J78 PSB J49 ALB GDM LOBBY KBED.
I'd rather just be able to dial that into the box. Heck, even going
from BED to PWM (Hanscom to Portland, ME - 83NM leg whos only
airspace issue is the 3000' and 4000' shelf of the Boston bravo )
always gets clearned via the PSM and ENE VORs.

That's true here in the Southwest as well. With all the restricted areas,
MOA's, and high MEA's, if you
want to go IFR, you're going to be on the airways.

I've been all over the SW with the exception of Kalifornia and I've haven't
filed an airway in a few years now.

I just put a well defined waypoint outside the MOA and go. As for high MEA's
I find it even easier going GPS than airways.


--
Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY

Roy Smith wrote:


Yeah, I know, it's starting to happen, but it's amazing how long it takes
for the most obvious things to get rolled out in aviation.

The Southern California area has had the tower-to-tower routes for many,
many years. Jeppesen publishes them on a text page.

But, they are not in the Jepp Nav database so far as I know. They
certainly aren't in the Garmin 400/500 or 400W/500W databases. Are they
in your 480's database?

B wrote:

All the necessary components of Victor airways are in the box. What you
want, I presume, is an airway database. I guess you have to go to a
G-1000 to get that.;-)

GNS480.

In article , B wrote:

Roy Smith wrote:


Yeah, I know, it's starting to happen, but it's amazing how long it takes
for the most obvious things to get rolled out in aviation.

The Southern California area has had the tower-to-tower routes for many,
many years. Jeppesen publishes them on a text page.

But, they are not in the Jepp Nav database so far as I know. They
certainly aren't in the Garmin 400/500 or 400W/500W databases. Are they
in your 480's database?

I don't believe so, but having never flown in California, I've never had
reason to look.

On 9/28/2007 5:54:48 PM, "John Collins" wrote:

Went to the map page, moved the cursor to where I wanted to
deviate to, pressed direct-to, enter, enter to get the waypoint +Map. Put
+Map into my flight plan. Before I got to the first +Map waypoint, I
decided that I could cut the diversion short, so I moved the +Map to the
new position and activated it. My GPSS took us dutifully on the modified
route.

That is handy. I'll have to read up on that tip.

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Peter