Control Wheel Steering (Cws) (Optional); G3X Touch Afcs Status Box - Garmin G3X Touch Pilot's Manual

AFCS

CONTROL WHEEL STEERING (CWS) (OPTIONAL)

NOTE: Not all third party autopilot units support Control Wheel Steering
(CWS).
Control Wheel Steering allows the aircraft to be hand-flown without disengaging
the AFCS. Press and hold the autopilot unit's CWS Button (if equipped) to temporarily
disengage the pitch and roll servos from the flight control surfaces and hand-fly the
aircraft. The G3X Touch autopilot control is synchronized to the aircraft attitude during
Control Wheel Steering. The green 'AP' annunciation is temporarily replaced by a white
'CW' for the duration of Control Wheel Steering maneuvers.
In most scenarios, releasing the CWS Button reengages the Autopilot with a new
reference. Refer to (Vertical Modes) and (Lateral Modes) for Control Wheel Steering
behavior in each mode.

G3X TOUCH AFCS STATUS BOX

The AFCS status box displays Autopilot (AP), Optional Yaw Damper (YD), and Flight
Director (FD) mode annunciations on the PFD. When a third party autopilot unit is
engaged and the G3X Touch is issuing commands to it, lateral and vertical modes
are displayed. When a third party autopilot unit is engaged but it is operating in a
standalone mode (i.e., not responding to the G3X Touch commands), the Autopilot
status (AP) is displayed; however, the lateral/vertical modes are not displayed.
Autopilot (AP) status is displayed on the far left of the G3X Touch Autopilot Status
Box. Lateral modes are displayed in the center, and vertical modes are displayed on
the right. Armed modes are displayed in white and active in green.
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