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What’s New with the
400W / 500W Series
New Operational Characteristics of the
WAAS GNS 400W/500W Series Units
versus
the Classic 400/500 Series Units
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This document is written for: • Garmin GPS 400W , GNC 420W/420A W , and GNS 430W/430A W Main System Softwar e V ersion 2.00 • Garmin GPS 500W & GNS 530W/530A W Main System Softwar e V ersion 2.00 © 2008 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reser ved. st Garmin Inter national, Inc., 1200 East 151 Str eet, Olathe, KS 66062, U.S.A. T el. 913/397.8200 or 800/800.1020 Fax 913/397.8282 Garmin A T , Inc., 2345 T ur ner Rd., S.E., Salem, Or egon 97302, U.S.A. T el: 503/581.8
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The 400W/500W series of navigators with W AAS now of fer many enhancements over the pr evious non-W AAS models. Advancements include new W AAS-enabled GPS antenna, r eceiver , and associated softwar e. The 400W/500W series system complies with W AAS TSO C146a and also includes a significant har dwar e upgrade with a new and much faster micr o-pr ocessor . A terrain database for terrain awar eness is included as a standar d featur e and now pr ovides even gr eater detai
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Feature Classic 400/500 New 400W/500W 18 Graphics Speed Good Much better 19 Crossfill Yes 12x faster 20 XM Radio Audio and Weather Limited, NEXRAD, METARs, no Yes - Adds TAFs, TFRs, NEXRAD Coverage, and audio control audio controls 21 KAP140/KFC225 Autopilot Yes Annunciation added Operation-Compatible 22 GDL Configuration No GDL 69/69A 23 GDL 69/69A Data Link Diag- No Yes nostics 24 Traffic Range Rings Yes The numeric values for Traffic Range rings vary with the installed traffic source. 25 I
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Detailed Description of Feature Changes satellite ar e wr ong and r emoving that satellite fr om the 1. TSO navigation solution. TSO C-129/C-129a allowed the use of GPS for The Federal A viation Administration (F AA) and the supplemental navigation for non-pr ecision appr oaches. Department of T ransportation (DOT) ar e developing An installation meeting TSO-146a r equir ements allows the W AAS pr ogram for use in pr ecision IFR appr oaches. the use of your 400W/500W
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GPS Accuracy 3. Approach Annunciations LPV , L/VNA V , LNA V+V , LNA V , and MAPR will appear GPS Condition Accuracy Level in the flight phase annunciation window . Accuracy of the original GPS system, 100 meters Annunciation Description which was subject to accuracy degradation under the government- LPV Follow lateral and vertical guidance to LPV minimums. imposed Selective Availability (SA) program. L/VNAV GPS approach identified in the database as LNAV/VNAV. Fly to LNAV/VNA
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5. GPS Position Calculation Rate 8. GPS/WAAS-Based Vertical Guidance The W AAS GPS r eceiver calculates its position five The W AAS GPS r eceiver now allows you to use the times per second rather than once per second like the 400W/500W series unit for primar y navigation and Classic C-129/C-129a GPS systems. This, together with use GPS with vertical guidance for LPV , L/VNA V , and the enhanced vertical accuracy and other system en- LNA V+V appr oaches. hancements, allo
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11. OBS Operation 13. Parallel Track SUSP after canceling OBS when on Fr om side of OBS Parallel T rack allows you to cr eate a parallel course path – The change in behavior is this: When you put the of fset of 1 to 99 NM to the left or right of your curr ent 400W/500W -series unit into OBS mode and the course flight plan. After setting a parallel track to your curr ent selected places the air craft onto the fr om side and then flight plan, a magenta parallel
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14. Magnetic Variation Options 17. Satellite Status Page The Satellite Status page has been r edesigned to Magnetic variation has been simplified to the choices pr ovide W AAS GPS information. of Magnetic and T rue. Signal Strength See the section on Units/Position of the Setup 1 Page in Bars the Aux Pages chapter of the Pilot’s Guide for more details. Sky View Current GPS Receiver Horizontal Figure of of satellite UTC Time Status 15. Terrain Database Merit and Vertical posit
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20. XM Radio Audio and Weather XM W eather is available thr ough the XM Satellite Radio Ser vice when activated in the optional installa- tion of the GDL 69 or 69A. T extual and graphic weather pr oducts such as NEXRAD graphic weather with pr ecipi- tation type, radar coverage, TFRs, T AFs, and MET ARs symbols ar e displayed in the NA V function. The types of pr oducts available depend on the subscription ser vice with XM Satellite Radio. Textual METARs Audio entertainment is ava
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21. KAP140/KFC225 Autopilot Operation-Compatible 24. Traffic Range Rings Autopilot outputs for the King KAP140/KFC225 The numeric values for T raffic Range rings var y with autopilots ar e activated manually by the pilot after the installed traffic sour ce. being pr ompted during the appr oach pr ocedur e. Since See the section on Traffic in the 400W/500W Series these autopilots r evert to r oll mode-wings level when Garmin Optional Displays Pilot’s Guide Addendum - p/n transit
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© 2008 GARMIN Corporation GARMIN Inter national, Inc. st 1200 East 151 Str eet, Olathe, Kansas 66062, U.S.A. T el. 913/397.8200 or 800/800.1020 Fax 913/397.8282 Garmin A T , Inc. 2345 T ur ner Rd., S.E., Salem, Or egon 97302, U.S.A. T el. 503/581.8101 or 800/525.6726 Fax. 503/364.2138 Garmin (Eur ope) Ltd. Liberty House, Bulls Copse Road, Hounsdown Business Park, Southhampton, SO40 9RB, U.K. T el. +44 (0) 870 850 1243 Fax +44 (0) 238 052 4004 GARMIN Corporation nd No. 68, Jangsh
