Yes and no garmin will fly you over the waypoints you plug into it like bread crumbs. Think of it as a handheld garmin unit you use for hiking not a car garmin you use for driving that calculates route for you. You need to tell it where to go step by step. It is smart to know airways which is nothing more than collection of those breadcrumbs but that is as smart as it gets in that respect. If you plug just origin and destination it will fly you in a straight line from A to B to a middle of a destination airport and not necessarily line you up with a runway which is not really realistic since just like on the surface sky has rules of the road there could be exclusion zones there could be land features there could be weather etc. In sim terms yes you will get there to the middle of your destination airport but you could be violating whole bunch of those rules or flying yourself into the mountain if you’re low enough and didn’t consult the maps. That is why you plan your route using maps first so you can then put that into garmin and why I suggest finding victor airways from sky vector because they are easy to see they are just black lines criss crossing in all directions… They are just like roads on the surface and they have altitudes written on them. For garmin to line you up with runway it needs origin destination and approach if there is a published approach for the destination airport at the very minimum. If there is an approach published it will give you proper vertical guidance for garmin to follow as well as lateral guidance But in between it will just fly you in a straight line A to B. Word of caution if you use skyvector DO NOT File a flight plan in skyvector it’s illegal. Sky vector is a real world navigation utility and you do have an option of filing flight plan with aviation authority and obviously you don’t want to do that.
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