4 Hazard Avoidance

The G600 hazard avoidance features are designed to provide advisory information of potential hazards to flight safety associated with weather, terrain, and air traffic.

This section is divided into the following groups:

Terrain Avoidance

Foreword

 

System

Sec 1

Terrain Proximity

TAWS-B (Optional)

Terrain-SVT™ (Optional)

Traffic Avoidance

Traffic Advisory System (Optional)

Traffic Information Service (TIS) (Optional - GTX 33/330 Transponder required)

Weather

GDL 69/69A XM® Satellite Weather (Optional)

GWX 68 Weather Radar (Optional)

GFDS Weather with the Iridium® satellite system through GSR 56 (Optional)

4.1Terrain Configurations

TAWS/Terrain Configurations - Garmin’s G600 Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS-B) is an optional feature and is intended to provide the flight crew with both aural and visual alerts to aid in preventing inadvertent Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT).

During power-up of the GDU 620, the terrain/obstacle database versions are displayed along with a disclaimer. At the same time, the Terrain system self-test begins. A failure message is issued if the terrain test fails.

Garmin provides the following terrain awareness solutions within the GDU 620 environment:

TAWS-B- A system developed to meet the terrain alerting and ground proximity requirements for Class B TAWS systems as defined in TSO- C151b.

Terrain-SVT- Refers to a subset of Class B TAWS that will meet the terrain alerting requirements outlined in Section 7.b of AC 23-26. Terrain-SVT is

PFD

Sec 2

 

Sec 3 MFD

 

Sec 4 Hazard Avoidance

Features

Additional

Sec 5

& Alerts

Annun.

Sec 6

Symbols

Sec 7

 

Glossary

Sec 8

 

Appendix A

 

 

Index

Appendix

 

 

B

 

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Garmin G600 Terrain Configurations, Terrain Proximity TAWS-B Optional Terrain-SVT Optional, Terrain Avoidance, Weather