On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:37:32 GMT, "John R. Copeland"
wrote:


"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message ...

OK I see what you mean. It's giving the track of the flight planned route,
period.

But this leads me to another area that I've started to look for. Is it
possible to constantly monitor the bearing to a way point, other than the
waypoint to which you are navigating? An example might be a request to
report crossing a specified bearing to an NDB, while navigating to another
waypoint.

Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

If the waypoint of interest is within range of your "NRST" twenty,
the CNX80 will give you a dynamic display of direction and distance
to it when you select the appropriate type of "NRST" waypoint.

For a waypoint outside of the nearest twenty of each type, you'll need to
retrieve your waypoint of interest from the DataBase.
When you have it, pressing INFO will give you dynamic direction and distance.
If the waypoint is an airport, you'll find direction and distance under "POS".

If you select an inappropriate type of waypoint, (ARTCC or FSS),
you'll get distance, but only a relative bearing instead of direction.
Oddly enough, you DO get direction and distance to special airspace.
It appears to measure to the closest point of that airspace.
---JRC---

OK. So I guess I could use the INFO display to monitor the cross-bearing;
and just use my HSI to navigate; and fall back on the old-fashioned method
of keeping myself oriented in my head g.

It'd be neat to be able to monitor the bearing and also watch the moving
map. One can do it with the cursor, but as soon as you change the display,
PAN mode discontinues. So it's not as easy.

Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)