6)Use the small and large right knobs to enter the amount of fuel on board. Press the ENT Key when finished.

7)The flashing cursor moves to the fuel flow (FF) field. Use the small and large right knobs to enter the fuel flow rate. Press the ENT Key when finished. Note that if a fuel system is providing current fuel flow, the fuel flow field defaults to this value.

8)The flashing cursor moves to the ground speed (GS) field. Use the small and large right knobs to enter the ground speed. Press the ENT Key when finished.

9)With all variables entered, the following information is provided:

•REQ - Quantity of fuel required

•LFOB - Left-over fuel on board

•LRES - Left-over fuel reserve time

•EFF - Efficiency, expressed in distance per fuel units (e.g., nautical miles per gallon)

•RNG - Range (distance)

•ENDUR - Flight endurance, or total available flight time

10)To reconfigure the data fields press the MENU Key to display the options window (Figure 10-13). Turn the small right knob to highlight the ‘change fields?’ option. Press the ENT Key to reconfigure the data fields. Turn the large right knob to select the desired field. Turn the small right knob to highlight the desired data. Press the ENT Key to select the data configuration.

SECTION 10

AUX PAGES

Flight Planning Page: Trip Planning

Performing trip planning operations:

1)Select ‘Trip Planning’ from the Flight Planning Page, using the steps described in this section.

2)The current trip planning ‘leg mode’ is displayed at the top of the page: ‘POINT TO POINT’ or ‘FPL LEG’ (for a flight plan leg). To change the leg mode, press the MENU Key to display the Flight Planning Page Menu for the other leg mode, then press the ENT Key to accept the other leg mode.

3)For point-to-point trip planning, turn the small and large right knobs to enter the identifier of the ‘from’ waypoint. Once the waypoint’s identifier is entered, press the ENT Key to accept the waypoint. The flashing cursor moves to the ‘to’ waypoint (Figure 10-14). Again, turn the small and large right knobs to enter the identifier of the ‘to’ waypoint and press the ENT Key to accept the waypoint. OR,

4)For ‘flight plan leg’ trip planning, turn the small right knob to select the desired flight plan (already stored in memory), by number. Turn the large right knob to highlight the ‘LEG’ field (Figure 10-15) and turn the small right knob to select the desired leg of the flight plan, or select ‘Cum’ to apply trip planning calculations to the entire flight plan.

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GNS 530(A) specifications

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