macrafic
Well Known Member
I have a Q on the use of the GTN 650 and it is best asked by describing the specific scenario.
You are out flying around and decide you want to do a practice IFR approach to a nearby airport. to do this properly, the airport must be put into a GTN flight plan (using Direct To is not sufficient, according to the documentation). To put the approach airport into a light plan, it needs to be part of a leg (I.e. 2 points entered into the flight plan: start and end).
I have been marking my current position on the GPS, creating a waypoint, and using that as the first position of the leg. The approach Airport then becomes the destination for that leg. This has been working OK, but is a lot of button pushing.
Has anyone else found a better way to do this? Is there a feature of the GTN that I am unaware of?
You are out flying around and decide you want to do a practice IFR approach to a nearby airport. to do this properly, the airport must be put into a GTN flight plan (using Direct To is not sufficient, according to the documentation). To put the approach airport into a light plan, it needs to be part of a leg (I.e. 2 points entered into the flight plan: start and end).
I have been marking my current position on the GPS, creating a waypoint, and using that as the first position of the leg. The approach Airport then becomes the destination for that leg. This has been working OK, but is a lot of button pushing.
Has anyone else found a better way to do this? Is there a feature of the GTN that I am unaware of?