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Old 01-27-2016, 11:06 PM
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You are looking at the course and GS deviation indicators.
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Not to change the subject of the thread, but is the magenta "+" on your attitude indicator on the G3X the flight director? I thought the Garmin used the inverted V for the flight director?
While I'm not a Garmin guru, over my career I've flown behind a bunch of flight directors, both the bars and batwings, and they look like FD bars to me. At this phase of flight there should not be a glide slope indicator. The airplane is not on course but is in heading mode and altitude hold is engages with the autopilot so it appears those magenta bars are a flight director all centered up showing the plane is on heading and on altitude.

i did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night,
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Garmin gives you a choice of the horizontal and vertical lines, or the more standard bat wing. Either will only appear during autopilot flight or, if you have the external A/P head, when the FD is engaged. The GS will appear to the right of the bars where the "V" is visible on the display in the photo above.
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Right. Garmin G3X defaults to magenta inverted chevron (single cue) but allows dual cue as an option. It's less intuitive, but more powerful because it allows you to easily separate roll from pitch and only follow one when hand-flying the FD. That's why the airliners use it. I love that Garmin give us the choice.
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The mini showing an all blue screen like that would turn me right off. It's an attitude indicator.....how can you see attitude with no ground reference?
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The mini showing an all blue screen like that would turn me right off. It's an attitude indicator.....how can you see attitude with no ground reference?
Agree completely.
I am really glad I chose to install the GRT Horizon hx instead of the mini which I considered due to limited panel space.
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