Synthetic Vision - Avidyne Entegra Pilot's Manual

IMPORTANT NOTE
Pilots should never use the Entegra Integrated
Flight Display System to penetrate severe weather
such as thunderstorms or cells. Avoid severe
weather areas with a safe margin of distance.
If the Primary Nav selection is set to FMS the "Fly Vectors" LSK
on the PFD will need to be pressed to enter Vectors mode.

SYNTHETIC VISION

Synthetic Vision (SynVis) is meant to serve as a situational
awareness aid. As an aid to situational awareness, it is intended
to provide terrain, obstacle and traffic awareness in the proximity
of your aircraft. It is not meant to be the sole means of terrain or
obstacle avoidance nor is it meant to serve as the sole means to
conduct an instrument approach.
SynVis uses a GPS-based MSL altitude and a 9 arc-sec terrain
database to display a 3D scene representing an "egocentric" out-
the-window view. The SynVis scene displays
A Total Velocity Vector (TVV)
Airport METAR flags
Runway depictions
3D terrain
3D traffic
3D obstacles
Large bodies of water (oceans, lakes, major rivers)
Note: SynVis computes height above terrain via GPS inputs and
is not a radio altimeter (RADALT).
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