MBDiagMan
Final Approach
I flew for the first time this morning with my non WAAS 420 in my little taildragger. I have a 430 W in my Mooney and I’m trying to configure he 420 to appear and operate like the 420 as much as possible.
I’ve got North Up figured out and configured and some of the configurable fields like TRK, DIST, GS, etc., to match the Mooney for the most part although I am struggling a little with one field.
One thing I’ve found that I think is just different between the two and can’t be configured is the Next Track and Turn To TRK. On the 430 W when approaching a Waypooint such as an initial approach fix, it tells you the next heading (TRK) and then counts down several seconds for execution of the turn. On the 420 it simply gives a message indicating the next TRK will be for a few seconds then it will say Turn to TRK XXX. Does anyone know if this is configurable on the 420 to give the 8 or so second countdown to the turn?
BTW, I expect I will have a few more questions before I get it where I want it. I have the manual, but it doesn’t always show all the details or they are sometimes hard fo find.
I’ve got North Up figured out and configured and some of the configurable fields like TRK, DIST, GS, etc., to match the Mooney for the most part although I am struggling a little with one field.
One thing I’ve found that I think is just different between the two and can’t be configured is the Next Track and Turn To TRK. On the 430 W when approaching a Waypooint such as an initial approach fix, it tells you the next heading (TRK) and then counts down several seconds for execution of the turn. On the 420 it simply gives a message indicating the next TRK will be for a few seconds then it will say Turn to TRK XXX. Does anyone know if this is configurable on the 420 to give the 8 or so second countdown to the turn?
BTW, I expect I will have a few more questions before I get it where I want it. I have the manual, but it doesn’t always show all the details or they are sometimes hard fo find.
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