I just installed the Garmin GPS 175 in my panel. I have a Skyview HDX with Dynon Autopilot. Can someone please direct me to where in the users manual or the installation manual I can find the various configuration settings (other than the ARINC-429 settings), necessary to use the flight plans and couple the Dynon A/P to GPS approaches from the GPS 175?
On page 5-47 of the users manual, the 3rd paragraph in the Flight Planning section mentions knowing whether Skyview has been configured to "always tie flight plans to the HSI navigation source", but it does not say where in the setup menu ( or anywhere else), you need to go to set this configuration option and to read/ understand what it does. I did find it, (I think), on pg 12-10 of the Install manual,
Go to SETUP MENU > MAP SETUP and select TIE FLIGHT PLAN SRC TO HSI NAV SRC to select whether you want the flight plan source to be independent from the HSI navigation source.
But I am not sure exactly what this means. If set to YES, does this mean that any time to change the data source to either of these, that the data source to the other will automatically change to remain in synch? If so, what happens if you switch HSI source to point to a VOR/ ILS, ADF, or any other source that is not also a flight plan? Does the flight plan source stay as is?
Reading between the lines I gather that at one point, the software was set up so that you could change the flight plan waypoints in the GPS 175 or in the Skyview and the change would be propagated to the other system, but that Garmin has disabled this capapability.
What about the SHOW [DATA SRC] ON MAP setting? Can anyone tell me where to find that setting? Is it only visible when a third party [external] navigation data source is selected?
There is also an ALLOW AUTO SWITCH setting, which I found in the Install manual. As I read this, this allows the GPS 175 to send a signal to Skyview to automatically switch the HSI nav source to the ILS at the appropriate time on the approach. Is that correct?
On page 5-47 of the users manual, the 3rd paragraph in the Flight Planning section mentions knowing whether Skyview has been configured to "always tie flight plans to the HSI navigation source", but it does not say where in the setup menu ( or anywhere else), you need to go to set this configuration option and to read/ understand what it does. I did find it, (I think), on pg 12-10 of the Install manual,
Go to SETUP MENU > MAP SETUP and select TIE FLIGHT PLAN SRC TO HSI NAV SRC to select whether you want the flight plan source to be independent from the HSI navigation source.
But I am not sure exactly what this means. If set to YES, does this mean that any time to change the data source to either of these, that the data source to the other will automatically change to remain in synch? If so, what happens if you switch HSI source to point to a VOR/ ILS, ADF, or any other source that is not also a flight plan? Does the flight plan source stay as is?
Reading between the lines I gather that at one point, the software was set up so that you could change the flight plan waypoints in the GPS 175 or in the Skyview and the change would be propagated to the other system, but that Garmin has disabled this capapability.
What about the SHOW [DATA SRC] ON MAP setting? Can anyone tell me where to find that setting? Is it only visible when a third party [external] navigation data source is selected?
There is also an ALLOW AUTO SWITCH setting, which I found in the Install manual. As I read this, this allows the GPS 175 to send a signal to Skyview to automatically switch the HSI nav source to the ILS at the appropriate time on the approach. Is that correct?
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