Hazard Avoidance; Terrain Configurations - Garmin G500 Pilot's Manual

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HAZARD AVOIDANCE

The G500 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
• Terrain Proximity
• Garmin Terrain-SVT™ (Optional)
Traffic Avoidance
• Traffic Advisory System (Optional)
• Traffic Information Service (TIS)
(Optional - GTX 33/330 Transponder required)
Weather
• GDL 69/69A XM
• Weather Radar (Optional)
• GFDS Weather with the Iridium
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Terrain Configurations

The following terrain awareness configurations are available in the G500
system:
• 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
a subset of Class B TAWS that provides a Class B TAWS FLTA functionality,
including visual alerting and aural alerting. Terrain-SVT is provided with
the Synthetic Vision functionality and not marketed separately.
NOTE: Terrain-SVT is not a fully functional TAWS and does not meet the
TAWS TSO-C151b.
• Terrain-Proximity - Refers to the display of the relative terrain elevations
on the moving map. No aural alerts of any type are provided by a Terrain-
Proximity configuration.
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