G1000 SAR GRID TECHNIQUES

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G1000 SAR GRID TECHNIQUES
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G1000 Setup For Lat/Long Display
For Lat/Long in minutes.hundredths (W 77 52.50
instead of W 77 52 30)
To display lat/long lines and lat/long labels
Consider Aux Pg 3 to set degrees, minutes,
hundredths
Select Menu, Map Setup, Land
Group - Text Med or Large (gives L/L
text) - Range gt than display (suggest
100) (displays Lat/Long lines)
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Easy G1000 User Waypoint Setup

• How To
• 1. Wpt /User page
• 2. Depress cursor knob
• and move to waypoint
• 3. Hit Enter
• 4. Give it a name

With Lat/Long displayed, The cursor is fairly
easy to Place on L/L coordinates to create user
waypoints
Recommend we use a naming standard of Grid
/letter and corner This leads to the question
once we start filling up waypoints, which ones
can we erase?
L/L of cursor displays for coordinate refinement
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G1000 Inflight Use Grid Search
Option 1 PFD 10 mi scope (situational
awareness), MFD 2 mi scope (accuracy)
Select a PFD inset scale large enough to display
enough of the search grid for situational
awareness
Select 2 mi range on the MFDthis displays L/L in
½ mile grids The grid lines can be hard to see
with topo background selected . Recommend turning
topo off and terrain on (for altitude alerting
lt1000note the terrain grids are also ½ mile
sections)
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G1000 Inflight Use Grid Search
Option 2 PFD 5000 scope (accuracy), MFD as
required (situational awareness)
5000 PFD inset scale gives a display of ½ mile
lat/long grids. May need to turn topo off to read
grids.
Select MFD scale as desired for situational
awareness