Garmin G950
™
Cockpit Reference Guide for the Pilatus PC-6
190-00851-00 Rev. B
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Hazard Avoidance
Flight
Instruments EIS
Nav/Com/
XPDR/Audio AFCS GPS Nav
Flight
Planning Procedures
Hazard
Avoidance
Additional
Features
Abnormal
Operation
Annun/
Alerts Appendix Index
Vertically Scan a Storm Cell
1) While in the Horizontal Scan view, move the Joystick to place the Bearing
Line on the desired storm cell, or other area, to be vertically scanned.
2)
Press the VERTICAL Softkey. A vertical ‘slice’ of the selected area is now
displayed.
3)
Move the Joystick right or left to move the scanned “slice” a few degrees
right or left.
4)
Turn the Joystick to adjust the range.
5)
To select a new area to be vertically scanned, press the HORIZON Softkey
to return to the Horizontal Scan view and repeat the previous steps.
Adjusting Gain
WARNING: Changing the gain in Weather Mode causes precipitation intensity
to be displayed as a color not representative of the true intensity. Remember
to return the gain setting to ‘Calibrated’ for viewing the actual intensity of
precipitation.
1)
Press the GAIN Softkey to activate the cursor in the ‘GAIN’ field.
2)
Turn the small FMS Knob to adjust the gain for the desirable level. The
gain setting is visible in the gain field as a movable horizontal bar in
a flashing box. The line pointer is a reference depicting the calibrated
position.
3)
Press the FMS Knob to remove the cursor.
4)
Press the GAIN Softkey again to recalibrate the gain. ‘CALIBRATED’ is
displayed in the ‘GAIN’ field.
Ground Mapping
1)
Press the MODE Softkey.
2)
Press the GROUND Softkey to place the radar in Ground Map Mode.
3)
Press the BACK Softkey.
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