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Garmin Cessna Caravan G1000 Pilot's Manual

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    G1000 tm primary flight display pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii.

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii record of revisions revision date of revision revision page range description a 11/30/04 3-1 – 3-49 initial release..

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-1 introduction 3.1 introduction this pilot’s guide describes the major features of the g1000 primary flight display (pfd) as installed on cessna nav iii aircraft. The g1000 system consists of two 10.4 inch color flat panel displa...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-2 introduction 8 12 15 16 14 13 18 9 5 3 4 2 1 figure 3.1.1 default pfd information 17 11 15 16 12 14 13 6 4 2 5 17 7 3 1 nav frequency window airspeed indicator true airspeed box outside air temperature box altitude reference b...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-3 introduction figure 3.1.2 additional pfd information 4 7 6 8 1 3 9 5 2 10 traffic annunciation 2 4 3 1 7 6 9 8 inset map selected course box annunciation window alerts window vertical deviation/glideslope indicator marker beaco...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-5 backlighting 3.2 backlighting the backlighting of both the display and the keys can be adjusted for the pfd and mfd. The backlighting in- tensity ranges from 0.14% to 100.00%. Two modes exist for adjustment: • auto – the g1000...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-7 softkeys 3.3 softkey function when a softkey is turned on, its color changes to black text on gray background and remains this way until it is turned off, at which time it changes to white text on black background. The cdi , i...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-8 softkeys back – press to return to the previous level softkeys. Cdi – press to change navigation mode on the cdi between gps, nav1 and nav2. Dme (optional) – press to display the dme tuning window. Obs – press to select obs mo...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-9 softkeys figure 3.3.3 pfd softkey flow chart – 1 figure 3.3.4 pfd softkey flow chart – 2 pfd press the std baro or back softkeys to return to the top level softkeys press the dflts softkey to change the pfd metric values to st...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-10 softkeys figure 3.3.5 pfd softkey flow chart – 3 nrst cdi obs tmr/ref ident alerts xpdr stby on back vfr alt code ident 0 1 6 3 2 4 5 7 ident back bksp press the back softkey to return to the top level softkeys. Press the ide...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-11 flight instruments 3.4 flight instruments airspeed indicator the airspeed indicator displays airspeed on a rolling number gauge using a moving tape. The following infor- mation is also displayed: • speed indication • speed ra...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-12 flight instruments attitude indicator the attitude information is displayed over a virtual blue sky and brown ground with a white horizon line. The aircraft wing tips are represented by two yellow bars on the horizon line. Th...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-13 flight instruments figure 3.4.4 attitude indicator nose high figure 3.4.5 attitude indicator nose low roll indication major tick marks at 30 and 60 degrees and minor tick marks at 10, 20 and 45 degrees are shown to the left a...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-14 flight instruments altimeter the altimeter displays barometric altitude values in feet on a rolling number gauge using a moving tape. The altimeter displays the following information: • altitude values • altitude reference bu...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-15 flight instruments metric display reference and current altitude can be displayed in me- ters. The barometric pressure may also be displayed in hectopascals. To display altitude in meters and barometric pressure in hectopasca...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-16 flight instruments vertical speed indicator the vertical speed indicator displays the aircraft verti- cal speed with numeric labels and tick marks at 1,000 ft and 2,000 ft in each direction on the non-moving tape. Minor tick ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-17 flight instruments horizontal situation indicator the horizontal situation indicator (hsi) displays a rotating compass card with letters at the cardinal points and numeric labels every 30 degrees. Major tick marks are at 10 d...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-18 flight instruments arc hsi the arc hsi is a 140˚ expanded section of the compass rose. The arc contains a course pointer arrow, a to/from indicator, a sliding deviation indicator (the to/from and sliding deviation indicators ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-19 flight instruments turn rate indicator the turn rate indicator resides directly above the ro- tating compass card. Each tick mark is at 9 (half standard rate) and 18 (standard rate) degrees to the left and right of the lubber...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-20 flight instruments bearing pointers and information windows up to two bearing pointers can be displayed on the hsi. Pressing the pfd softkey provides access to the brg1 and brg2 softkeys. The brg1 pointer is a single cyan (li...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-21 flight instruments dme radio (optional) the dme radio is a honeywell kn63 remote-mounted, 200-channel, 100-watt, all-solid-state digital dme which provides distance information to the g1000. The dme information window is disp...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-22 flight instruments navigation source the hsi can display two sources of navigation, gps or nav (vor, localizer, and glideslope). In gps mode the flight plan legs are sequenced automatically. Enabling obs mode suspends auto seq...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-23 cns 3.5 communication, navigation & surveillance communication frequency window the communication frequency window provides the control and display of dual vhf radio communication transceivers (com1 and com2). The communicati...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-24 cns navigation status bar the navigation status bar resides at the top of the pfd and displays valuable information while flying a route. The following information is displayed: • the next waypoint in the active flight plan • d...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-25 cns transponder status bar the transponder status bar displays the transponder code, reply symbol, and mode of operation. Tis (traffic information system) surveillance data up-linked by air traffic control (atc) radar through t...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-27 supplemental flight data 3.6 supplemental flight data outside air temperature box the outside air temperature (oat) is displayed in °c. On the aux system setup page of the mfd oat can be configured to display °f instead of °c ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-28 supplemental flight data inset map the inset map is a smaller version of the navigation map page on the mfd. It appears in the lower left corner of the pfd and is displayed by pressing the inset soft- key. The map disappears ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-29 supplemental flight data to change the zoom range: 1. Turn the joystick clockwise to increase or counterclockwise to decrease the range. Zoom ranges from 500 feet to 2,000 nautical miles. To change the declutter level: 1. Pre...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-30 supplemental flight data to enable/disable stormscope (optional), nexrad (optional), or xm lightning (optional) data: 1. Press the inset softkey. Press the strmscp (optional), nexrad (optional), or xm ltng (optional) softkey ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-31 supplemental flight data auxiliary window keys the main keys which are used in association with the pfd auxiliary window operations are listed below: • direct-to – activates the direct-to func- tion, and allows the user to en...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-32 supplemental flight data generic timer the generic timer contains hours, minutes and sec- onds fields, timer direction (count up or down), and timer status start, stop or reset. To change the generic timer: 1. Press the tmr/re...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-33 supplemental flight data vspeeds and vspeed bug status vspeed values for the aircraft can be found in the air- craft flight manual (afm). The vspeeds can be changed and the vspeed bug can be turned on or off. Figure 3.6.9 tim...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-34 supplemental flight data to view information about an airport: 1. Press the nrst softkey to display a list of the nearest airports. 2. Turn the fms knob to select the desired airport and press the ent key. 3. The airport info...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-35 supplemental flight data to select a direct-to by identifier: 1. Press the direct-to key, then turn the fms knobs to select the desired waypoint identifier. Press the ent key to confirm the selection. Press the ent key again to ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-36 supplemental flight data to cancel a direct-to: 1. Press the direct-to key, then press the menu key to display the direct-to options menu. 2. Press the ent key to cancel direct-to navigation. If a flight plan is still active, ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-37 supplemental flight data create new flight plan new flight plans can be created on the pfd and mfd. The system can store up to 99 flight plans with up to 31 waypoints in each flight plan. To create a new flight plan: 1. Press the...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-38 supplemental flight data invert flight plan invert flight plan reverses the active flight plan. After traveling along a flight plan, the pilot may wish to reverse the route for navigation back to the original departure point. T...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-39 supplemental flight data load departure load departure allows the pilot to select a published standard instrument departure (sid) for the departure airport, or replace the current departure with a new selec- tion. When using ...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-40 supplemental flight data load arrival load arrival allows the pilot to select a published stan- dard terminal arrival route (star) for the destination air- port, or replace a current arrival with a new selection. Note : the p...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-41 supplemental flight data remove departure remove departure deletes the current standard instru- ment departure (sid) from the active flight plan. Remove arrival remove arrival deletes the current standard terminal arrival rout...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-42 supplemental flight data change fields change fields allows the pilot to select the desired data items to be displayed on the flight plan window. The user-selectable data fields can be changed to display the following informat...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-43 supplemental flight data select approach select approach allows the pilot to choose a published instrument approach for the destination airport, or replace the current approach with a new selection. Note: the pilot may also s...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-44 supplemental flight data select arrival select arrival allows the pilot to choose a published standard terminal arrival route (star) for the destination airport, or replace a current arrival with a new selection. Note: the pi...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-45 supplemental flight data select departure select departure allows the pilot to choose a published standard instrument departure (sid) for the departure airport, or replace the current departure with a new selec- tion. When us...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-47 reversionary mode 3.7 reversionary mode the pfd is designed to enter reversionary (backup) mode based on automatic fault monitoring and detec- tion, internal switching. Reversionary mode can also be activated by manually pres...

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    190-00387-02 rev. A garmin g1000 pfd pilot’s guide for cessna nav iii 3-49 alerts & annunciations 3.8 alerts and annunciations alerts window alerts appear in the alerts window in the lower right corner of the pfd. The term “alerts” is an encompassing term in that it includes advisories, cautions and...

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