Selection And Modification Methods - Garmin G1000 Pilot's Manual

Up to 99 flight plans with up to 100 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 system is turned
off and overwritten when another flight plan is activated. When storing flight plans with an approach, departure,
or arrival, the system uses the waypoint information from the current database to define the waypoints. If the
database is changed or updated, the system automatically updates the information if the procedure has not been
modified. If an approach, departure, or arrival procedure is no longer available, the procedure is deleted from the
affected stored flight plan(s), and an alert is displayed (see Miscellaneous Messages in Appendix A) advising that
one or more stored flight plans need to be edited.
Whenever an approach, departure, or arrival procedure is loaded into the active flight plan, a set of approach,
departure, or arrival waypoints is inserted into the flight plan along with a header line describing the instrument
procedure the pilot selected. The original enroute portion of the flight plan remains active (unless an instrument
procedure is activated) when the procedure is loaded.
When the database is updated, the airways need to be reloaded also. Each airway segment is reloaded from
the database given the entry waypoint, the airway identifier and the exit waypoint. This reloads the sequence of
waypoints between the entry and exit waypoints (the sequence may change when the database is updated). The
update of an airway can fail during this process. If that happens, the airway waypoints are changed to regular
(non-airway) flight plan waypoints, and an alert is displayed (see Miscellaneous Messages in Appendix A).
The following could cause the airway update to fail:
• Airway identifier, entry waypoint or exit waypoint not found in the new database.
• Airway entry/exit waypoint is not an acceptable waypoint for the airway – either the waypoint is no longer on
the airway, or there is a new directional restriction that prevents it being used.
• Loading the new airway sequence would exceed the capacity of the flight plan.

SELECTION AND MODIFICATION METHODS

There are three methods to create or modify a flight plan:
- FPL – ACTIVE FLIGHT PLAN Page on the MFD (create/modify the active flight plan)
- FLIGHT PLAN Window on the PFD (create/modify the active flight plan)
- FPL – FLIGHT PLAN CATALOG Page on the MFD (create/modify a stored flight plan)
To create or modify a flight plan, the cursor can be used to edit the required fields within the flight plan and
the CURRENT VNV PROFILE Box within the FPL – ACTIVE FLIGHT PLAN Page. The cursor will appear as a
field consisting of a solid cyan or magenta rectangle. The cursor can be activated by pushing the FMS Knob.
Fields can be highlighted by turning the large FMS Knob, and edits can be accomplished within the field by
combining small and large FMS Knob turns.
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