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NEWS DIGITAL

NEW SAFETY-ENHANCING FEATURES

recommended airport for the aircraft to pressing the dual concentric knob on just
glide to from its current position, the best one GTN Xi.
New features are now available for glide airport indicator1 is selected based A new radios page displays all Comm and
the Garmin GTN Xi Series of navigators upon distance from present location, Nav frequencies (active and standby) of
including a glide range ring that helps runway length at the airport, wind data, both units, as well as volume levels. The
safety-minded pilots visualise the estimat- and airport weather through FIS-B or Sirius radios page can be quickly accessed from
XM if available on the aircraft.
ed area an aircraft could reach in the case If desired, the best glide airport indicator the frequency keypad page or as a pre-set
engine power is lost. can be displayed by itself or with the glide user field button. From this page, pilots can
Other new features include the ability to range ring also shown. easily flip the respective active and standby
remotely control the radios of another GTN frequencies.
Xi when dual GTN Xi units are installed in Also new, pilots can load a frequency
an aircraft, quicker page navigation with NEAREST AIRPORT to the active or standby position of either
the addition of customisable dual concen- The nearest airport list now indicates which GTN Xi from applicable airport or waypoint
tric knob functions, and more. airports are estimated to be reachable information pages.
on glide by displaying a green check mark
GLIDE RANGE RING indication next to the airport identifier. DUAL CONCENTRIC KNOB
If the pilot’s criteria for nearest airports
The new glide range ring helps pilots would have excluded an airport that is Similar to other Garmin navigators, the dual
enhance their situational awareness by estimated to be within glide range, the concentric knob can now enable quicker
depicting the estimated area that the system will automatically add these access to select pages.
aircraft can reach when it’s configured for airports back to the nearest airport list The outer knob now allows the pilot to
best glide range in the case of an engine and display the glide check, while also intuitively cycle between pages on their
failure. highlighting the runway length and surface GTN Xi, while the inner knob can now
The glide range ring considers terrain type with a white box if these figures do support functionality related to the current
data, as well as wind data when provided not meet the previous nearest airport page being displayed, such as scrolling
by a GDL 69 or FIS-B Source, or calculated criteria set by the pilot. through lists or zooming in on maps.
winds from a compatible Garmin fight When dual GTN Xi navigators are A new locator bar works in conjunction
display2, in order to help pilots continuous- installed, pilots can now remotely control with the outer knob and indicates the
ly plan while flying. and tune the radio frequencies on both current page while also displaying which
Further, G500 TXi or G600 TXi flight units from a single GTN Xi navigator. page is next. Pilots can allocate and
displays can also show the glide range ring Pilots can control both the Comm and customise up to nine pages to be controlled
when paired with the GTN Xi while using Nav radio tuning, in addition to volume by the outer knob including Map, Nav,
the GTN Xi GPS guidance as the horizontal level, which is an especially useful function Flight Plan, Traffic, Weather, Fuel Planning,
situational indicator (HSI) source. and many more.
for quick radio tuning in a busy flight
environment. There are other GTN Xi series improve-
BEST GLIDE AIRPORT INDICATOR Additionally, pilots can cycle through ments and updates. For more information
Depicted as cyan chevrons pointing to the radios of both GTN Xi navigators by go to www.garmin.com. Q

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