Screenshots and/or a route list would be helpful. The departure may be going to a transition that requires vectors (thus injecting a MANSEQ or other discontinuity), with a final point that’s way off-course compared to the first point on the arrival. Keep in mind not every airport pair will have smooth, contiguous departure-arrival routing, and that’s normal. The TBM isn’t necessarily meant to always be in that environment.
NAV now “arms” instead of automatically putting you on the first active leg - this reflects real-life operation of Garmin FMS. You need to intercept your first leg using HDG mode or handflying. If GPS shows white in the Annunciator, it will turn green once you’re within two dots of the Offset Track on the CDI.
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Regarding the G3000, I’m just now learning the Vision Jet and I’m curious about the Traffic screen, which never shows any traffic. When I go to Traffic Settings, I enable Operate and Relative, but Traffic Display is greyed out and I assume this accounts for the absence of traffic?
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Not sure. I only fly Live Traffic, and never touch the Traffic Settings, and have had TAs appear on the PFD and Inset.
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I’ll try the discord and see if they have any idea, thanks for the quick reply!
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It injects discontinuity automatically when setting up a flight plan using FMS. So will I have to use heading mode to go to the course of the waypoint until I get within a certain distance of it?
I usually have to do a manual “direct to” to the first waypoint after setting up my flight plan using FMS under the tab just above the VMV tab. I think it’s called approaches
PROC is the tab I think you are thinking of.
Lots of procedures have these discontinuities or manseq legs.
Those if you look at the charts for them are steps where you “expect vectors” or “fly assigned heading”
Eventually, you will be cleared direct to (in the real world) one of the fixes on the flight plan. In the sim ATC environment, you’ll hear something like “continue to xxxxx as planned” and I consider that the time to direct to the fix after the MANSEQ / discontinuity
So, from what I’ve gathered the way you plan flights is just via the Procedures window, without filling anything between? That is… a choice, and one that seems like can generally make this happen to you more often; I haven’t tried to actually input just a departure and arrival procedure, but since I’m running a test for a question I might have I’m gonna do just that and see what happens whether I read you correctly or not
As mentioned earlier in the topic, for the NAV modes (VOR, LOC, GPS, etc.) to activate (turn green), you need to intercept their course, or ‘line’ so to speak. The autopilot won’t make a crazy turn to do that - it’s on you, the pilot, to fly the plane to it, whether by hand or other means (like the HDG setting).
If flying with ATC, often you will have them ask you to “go direct to ABC” or “fly heading x” - this is especially common in places where the procedures have no transitions, and you use the “Vectors to Final” option only upon getting clearance
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I’ve filled it up completely. Everything under the procedures tab (Cessna TBM9) and it won’t go to the next waypoint underneath the crazy “departure” name the FMS gives it. I.E. KLAS.XXX.XXX.KTEX. I have to do a direct to to that waypoint.
What is the specific departure name (with transition), and the next waypoint to which you’re trying to fly?
For example, let’s say I’m going to KTEX to KLAS. I’ve set everything up on the FMS for the TBM9 and after the first set of “departures” waypoints, it won’t navigate to the next set of what I’m assuming is the first set of “arrivals” waypoints. From what users are saying, I would have to use HDG mode to manually to navigate to that waypoint?
Please post your flight plan file. You can save it as a .pln and post here. Or show a complete set of screenshots of the FPL page in the GTC.
It all depends on the specific procedure. KTEX doesn’t have a departure procedure, so I can’t analyze the issue you’re describing. If you give an example with the name of the departure and the first waypoint beyond and/or a screenshot of the FPL page, I could help.
Using VR.
Prior to AAU1, when selecting AP/Heading the heading bug automatically reset to the plane’s current heading “lubber line”.
Unfortunately now after AAU1 the heading bug stays where it is and you must manually rotate the heading bug to current heading. I’ve checked for mapping options to my controller but see nothing that does this.
Clicking on your right mouse while hovering over the heading dial will reset heading bug to current heading but that requires an extra step use of the mouse.
This was incorrect behavior. The G3000/5000 autopilot does not snap to the current heading when activating HDG mode, as more often than not pilots want to dial in their heading and then arm the mode, not the other way around.
You must press the heading knob in order to sync the bug to the current aircraft heading.
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Why then is there another button to allow for lubber line sync as previously mentioned.
Clicking on your right mouse while hovering over the heading dial will reset heading bug to current heading but that requires an extra step use of the mouse.
That’s the answer for you, in my previous message, although I could be misunderstanding you.
If the question instead is why it is designed that way, well, I guess you’d have to ask Garmin. All modern AFCS systems that I can think of operate in this way.
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I see now what you mean. You can sync to lubber line by pressing the heading button anytime. I was referring to syncing heading to lubber line automatically once you engage AP/heading which is the way it was prior to AAU1
Thanks for the clarification.
When I started my TBM tonight, I turned on the battery but the screens didn’t come on. I have the HJet and the aau1 works in it. I haven’t tried the CJ4 yet. I used the default TBM. Should I be using a different plane for the aau1? It was working before.