Using the 430

I tried something with my Garmin 430 yesterday that worked out well so I
thought I would pass it along.

I was doing a series of practice approaches to the area airports that are 10
miles or so apart. The problem was setting up for the next approach while
climbing out from the last. With only a few miles, it was easy to over run the
IAF during setup.

So I put all the airports in a flight plan before takeoff (doesn't matter the
order). Then at any time you can call up the flight plan and with the curser
select any of the airports and do a "direct to". Then select the approach and
you are finished. After the first approach select the flight plan again,
curser to the next airport, "direct to",etc. Sure faster that entering the
next airport identifier one character at a time.

Chuck