Auto-Tuning - Garmin 500W Series Pilot's Manual & Reference

To select a COM frequency:
1. If the tunng cursor s not currently n the COM
wndow, press the small left knob momen-
tarly.
Turn the large left knob to select the desred
2.
megahertz (MHz) value. For example, the
"118" porton of the frequency "118.300".
Turn the small left knob to select the desred
3.
klohertz (kHz) value. For example, the ".300"
porton of the frequency "118.300".
To make the standby frequency the active fre-
quency, press the COM flip-flop key.
The tuning cursor remains in the COM window. If
you wish to select a VOR/localizer/ILS frequency, press
the small left knob momentarily to place the cursor in
the VLOC window. Additional instructions for VOR/
localizer/ILS operations are available in Sections 5 and 8.
Cursor in VLOC window allows for VOR and

Auto-Tuning

The GNS 530W' s auto-tune feature allows
you to quickly select any database frequency in
the GPS window as your standby frequency. Any
COM frequency displayed in the GPS window
can be transferred to the standby COM frequency
field, with a minimum of keystrokes required. The
following are some examples of selecting COM
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ILS operations.
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Auto-Tuning / Nearest Apt Page
GNS 530W only
frequencies from some of the main GPS pages.
To select a COM frequency for a nearby airport:
1. Select the Nearest Arport Page from the NRST
page group. (See Secton 7, or press and hold
CLR, then turn the large right knob untl the
nearest pages appear. Fnally, f necessary, turn
the small right knob to dsplay the Nearest
Arport Page.)
Nearest Airport Page with common traffic
advisory frequency (CTAF) for the closest
airport highlighted.
Press the small right knob momentarly to
2.
place the cursor on the arport dentfier field of
the first arport n the lst. If you wsh to select
another arport, turn the large right knob to
hghlght the desred arport.
3. The Nearest Arport Page dsplays the common
traffic advsory frequency (CTAF) for each lsted
arport. To select ths frequency, turn the large
right knob to hghlght the desred arport's
CTAF frequency and press ENT to place the
frequency n the standby field of the COM
wndow.
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