Garmin Essential Flight Planning Guide - 696 Manual

Flight Planning

SECTION 3 FLIGHT PLANNING

3.1 INTRODUCTION

Flight planning on the GPSMAP 695/696 consists of building a flight plan by entering waypoints one at a time and inserting approaches as needed. The flight plan is displayed on maps using different line widths, colors, and types, based on the type of leg and the segment of the flight plan currently being flown.

Up to 50 flight plans with up to 300 waypoints each can be created and stored in memory. One flight plan can be activated at a time and becomes the active flight plan. The active flight plan is erased when the destination is reached and the system is turned off. When storing flight plans with an approach, the GPSMAP 695/696 uses the waypoint information from the current database to define the waypoints. If the database is changed or updated, the GPSMAP 695/696 automatically updates the information if the procedure has not been modified. If an approach is no longer available, the procedure is deleted from the affected stored flight plan(s), and an alert is displayed.

Whenever an approach is loaded into the active flight plan it replaces the destination airport with a sequence of waypoints for the selected approach. The airport must have a published instrument approach and only the final course segment (usually from final approach fix to missed approach point) of the published approach is available in the GPSMAP 695/696.

DATA FIELDS

By default, the Data Fields on the Active and Saved Flight Plan Pages are set to display Leg Desired Track (LEG DTK), Leg Distance (LEG DIS), and Leg Estimated Time En Route (LEG ETE) or Leg Estimate Safe Altitude (LEG ESA) for a Saved Flight Plan. The first two Data Fields can be changed using the Page Menu. The last Data Field can be changed using the FMS Joystick.

Changing the information shown in the data fields:

From the Active Flight Plan Page or the Saved Flight Plan Page, move the FMS Joystick (right or left) to quickly change the third data field.

Overview GPS Navigation Flight Planning Hazard Avoidance Additional Features Appendices

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