MAP and VFR GPS Navigator Operation
5-40 SkyView HDX Pilot’s User Guide – Revision B
SkyView supports one Flight Plan at a time. This Flight Plan can be manipulated, and it can
provide navigation if it is activated, and it can be exported to a USB flash drive for later retrieval
or sent to a compatible device with ForeFlight or PocketFMS. Importing a Flight Plan from a USB
flash drive causes the currently loaded Flight Plan, if any, to be overwritten.
When the feature is used after a multi-leg flight plan has been created to go to
a new single destination, the current Flight Plan is temporarily “overwritten” by the
action. To restore a flight plan that has been “overwritten” by a temporary
activation, use the FPL > FPL MENU > RESTORE FLIGHT PLAN menu option. This
feature allows you to temporarily divert without permanently losing your existing
flight plan. However, it is important to note that if you build additional legs around
a destination, the new resulting multi-leg flight plan will now permanently
overwrite the previous flight plan.
There are two types of leg transitions. A flyby leg transition causes the aircraft to fly by the leg’s
destination waypoint in order to smoothly transition from one leg to the next with no
overshoot. This is the default transition type for each leg. An overfly transition causes the
aircraft to fly directly over the waypoint before transitioning to the next leg. The transition type
can be selected for each individual waypoint transition in the Flight Plan.
The Flight Plan is synchronized across all displays. A Flight Plan is also preserved on each display
over a power-cycle, but navigation is not active after the Flight Plan has been restored upon
start-up.
SkyView can import and export Flight Plans in GPX format to a USB flash drive. See
http://wiki.dynonavionics.com/Importing_Flight_Plans for information about
specific aviation software products that are known to output compatible GPX files.
Additionally, a technical reference for this format can be found at
http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp. There are many utilities available that convert
other formats to GPX format and vice-versa.
When parsing GPX files, SkyView looks at the first 99 route points (<rtept> tags)
within the first route (<rte> tag) in the GPX file. All other data is ignored.
Extended Runway Centerlines
When the Flight Plan origin, a waypoint, or the destination is an airport, an extended runway
line is shown on the map, As shown in Figure 140. To select the specific runway to display
extended runway, push the INFO button, select the RWY tab, and rotate the knob to select the
direction.
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