A side question. Can the 750 be set to autozoom to show the entire route? The 430w can autozoom and it used to annoy me but at least it helps by showing what has been entered. Of course it'd autozoom at the wrong time and I'd end up staring at the thing trying to figure out what happened. Ask
@denverpilot what happens when the picture on the TV (430w) looks wrong...
As best as I can tell a small internet troll operates my autozoom on the 650. I plan on turning it off of toning it down a bit in the menus whichever it will do.
For the moment it zooms to some strange level, usually way out and wholly unreadable on the smaller screen of the 650, and I spend too much time poking at the zoom in button.
This is the opposite of what it does at waypoints that include a turn. In that case it zooms in to about the two mile level, removing all SA about anything other than the waypoint (good and bad, you decide) and then after crossing the waypoint and the leg switches, it zooms back out to “useless and unreadable” which is probably to the next waypoint.
I think some of this would be a little better on the bigger screen of the 750 but it really is auto zoom trying to do too much that messes with me on the 650.
Thought about digging through menus today to figure out how to make it behave but there was a LOT of traffic on the ADS-B IN east of Denver with the Rockies game anti-terror TFR of Death clogging up the airspace on the northwest side of the Bravo. Soooooooo... I decided looking outside to avoid multiple collisions was probably in my best interest.
I’ve also noticed the traffic warnings are a bit later than I would like in cruise. I could see Dollison courses forming long before the Garmin alerted on it. In fact one time I maneuvered to place traffic BEHIND me, then it alerted that the traffic was 4 o’clock less than a mile. Yeah, thanks... I put it there with a turn. LOL.
Sooooo... nothings perfect but if there’s one super annoying feature in the GTN it’s auto-zoom, after flying behind it for a while.
Probably just used to ForeFlight keeping the aircraft in one spot and holding the same zoom value at all times. Pinch zoom to change it.
BTW the GTN has pinch zoom but my brain refuses to use it for some reason.
There’s also some interesting side effects of zoom level just like the 430/530 for traffic and map functions. Zoom in too far and the altitude markers under the Bravo shelf disappear. One notch back, they return like magic.
I need to go play with the simulator to see what settings I want for that. Flying under a Bravo shelf is hilarious with airspace warnings. I found if you fly the right heading right toward an altitude change corner, it’ll warn if you turn one way a degree or two, and the warning message will disappear if you turn back a degree or two. Obviously with an autopilot that could hold a course better than a newbie pilot (unlike mine) this wouldn’t show up. But hand flying if you’re pointed at the right spot you can literally turn the warning on and off with rudder. Hahaha.
That one I don’t mind so much but the message indicator and all the warnings in Bravo shelf airspace are so incessant they become the “Boy who cried wolf” and you start to ignore the messages.
I do like that you can program custom messages on a timer. I have one I added for 30 minute engine and fuel checks which I do like very much.
And away from complex airspace the airspace warnings would be great. But underneath the Bravo it whines too much.
Auto zoom has to die though. I’d rather read the distance setting and set it to something useful and if I need to see the whole route either zoom it out myself or just make sure the flight plan was sent over to the iPad via the Flightstream. Way easier to look at a routing change on the iPad just scrolling along.
