TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
Is this the behavior you'd expect? I think it would have caught me by surprise. Nice to know a workaround ahead of time.
Do you know if this applies to the G1000?
It does not. I tried it in the sim tonight and it does not behave the same way.
That's exactly how it works for all the FMSs I've used. You can go direct to any airport you please, but until you change the last airport in your flight plan (UNS-1) or the FPN Destination airport (FMS3000) it won't change the available approaches.
That is strange, though, that 1) Garmin didn't know about that functionality, and that 2) it differs among their various products.