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Garmin DME arc weidnress
I recently flew my first DME arc transition using my Garmin GNS-530.
It's always fun and challenging to figure out what the Garmin thinks it's doing; see my list of "Garmin gotchas" for examples: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Garmin/ Below is the newly-added entry on my DME arc experience. -- Dave Touretzky ================================================== ============== DME Arc: the Garmin will guide you through a DME arc as part of an approach, but the manual does not provide much guidance on how this works. DME arcs are covered only briefly, on pp. 71-73, and the example given in the manual does not look like what I experienced when I tried to fly a DME arc in the airplane. Approaching Erie, Pennsylvania (KERI) from the south, I requested the DME arc transition for the ILS 24 approach. This is a 61 degree arc at a 19 mile radius off the ERI VOR. The Garmin offered a choice of several IAFs for the ILS 24. The correct one, OMIRY, is not shown by name on the government plate for the ILS 24 approach! Fortunately it is shown on the VOR/DME OR GPS 24 plate. So I selected OMIRY as my IAF, and the Garmin set up the following curious flight plan: OMIRY-ia 143 deg. 16.9 nm dme arc ERI 19.0 nm D066S 033 deg. 18.2 nm CF24 WAILS-fa 242 deg. 7.5 nm RW24-ma 243 deg. 4.5 nm 1. The first line was a mystery. At the time I hit the PROC button to select the approach and transition, I was south of OMIRY, heading north. Why was the course shown as 143 deg.? It turns out that my en route flight plan had me flying direct to KERI. So when I selected the approach and the OMIRY transition, the Garmin calculated the course from KERI to OMIRY, not from my present position to OMIRY. 2. The second line indicated a DME arc segment flown at a radius of 19 miles from the ERI VOR. 3. The third line indicated the intersection of the DME arc with the lead radial for the turn onto the localizer: D066S means a waypoint at 066 deg. and 19 miles (because S is the 19th letter of the alphabet) from the VOR. But what were those two other values? Notice that 033 deg. is 88 degrees counterclockwise from the radial that defines OMIRY. The 033 deg. course is the initial heading along the DME arc at OMIRY, and has nothing to do with the lead radial that marks the end of this segment. And eventually I figured out that the 18.2 nm distance is the length of the DME arc segment from OMIRY to the lead radial waypoint. You can verify this by calculating (121-066)/360 * 2*pi * 19 = 18.2. 4. The fourth line, CF24, is apparently the waypoint marking the beginning of the final approach segment, with a course of 242 deg. 5. The fifth line shows WAILS, the FAF. The segment from CF24 to WAILS is 7.5 nm. 6. The sixth line shows the runway 24 threshold as the missed approach point. The distance from the FAF to the threshold is 4.5 nm. |
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