Escaping from a Hold on the flight plan and proceeding to the next waypoint or segment
How does one escape a Hold, while in flight, and have the g1000 re-enter the sequence of segments towards the destination?
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If you see SUSP in magenta on the HSI, press the SUSP softkey to disarm suspend mode. The autopilot should continue along the flight path after completing the turn in the hold and crossing the fix one last time.
OK, I’ll look for the SUSP, I don’t recall seeing it during a Hold. Just and endless circle without advancing. I figured somewhere in the menu there would be a “go to next segment” or something like that. I will look for the SUSP softkey
Anybody can help me and tell me why I am getting no GPS position with the G1000 nxi and the display is like this?
Thanks!
I see this every time it boots up after flipping on the avionics switch, but after the PFD is done calibrating itself (“Keep wings level”), it changes over to the normal aircraft icon.
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Thanks, yeah this is what I’m used to too, but in this case it did not do that.
Maybe a livery issue as there were also no annunciator messages on the the PFD.
Yep - sounds like an incompatible addon if it was working and now stopped.
It’s just a livery, will try with the default livery.
It didn’t say TAWS system test passed either. (I might have got the wording wrong for this from memory).
Now that the WT G1000 is going to be applied as the default version in the sim can we expect any progress on the G3000, specifically the highly irritating bug that causes an in-flight programmed approach to make a 180o turn and head back to a waypoint that could be many miles behind us?
I seem to remember that only happened to me when I didn’t activate the approach soon enough. Now I activate well before reaching the first waypoint named at the beginning of the approach.
I cannot input the approach until its given to me and what comes up is USER-FIRST WAYPOINT so I am not convinced its me not activating the approach quickly enough, I am activating it as soon as I am physically able too having been cleared to the first waypoint given to me by ATC. What I do works in the G1000 and the 3000 is not all that different.
That’s incorrect. You can activate the approach at any time during your flight.
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No it isnt incorrect at all. You cannot activate an approach until one is provided to you by ATC if you set the flight up with automatic approach in the sim flight planning map and want an approach that is based on the latest local conditions at your approach airport.
The whole point of waiting for one to be provided is so that any changes in weather make it less likely that you will find yourself on an approach with AI taking off towards you because the wind changed and the runways were switched. So yes, you can set up an approach any time you like if you dont wait for ATC to provide an approach for you but I dont like gambling on my approaches.
You are mistaking activating an approach on the G1000 with getting assigned an approach by ATC. I repeat, you can activate an approach at any time during your flight.
You can always set up a presumed approach and many pilots do. You can also change it on the G1000 later if the assigned one is different. And you can always ask ATC for a different approach once you get one assigned.
But the fact remains that the problem you are reporting is because you’re activating too late. You will have to figure out a solution that accounts for both conditions.
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Sorry about my response. I’ve only been flying G1000 & 3000 planes and the Cessna Citation. I have never used the “automatic approach” and always select my own before takeoff.
Sorry but that is inaccurate. I was given an approach which I put into the G3000 which had a prescribed sequence of waypoints listed in the flight plan. The very first waypoint in the list was AM606 but instead of continuing to that waypoint when I activated the approach, I was turned around 180 degrees and directed back to my previous waypoint MOLIX, moving away from AM606 in other words, not towards it. So dont tell me that it was because I was late activating the approach, that’s clearly nonsense because AM606 was ahead of me, not behind me. I have flown thousands of miles doing approaches to all sorts aof airports, I know how approaches work.
Ok, well you didn’t give any details in your first post. I wouldn’t say this is a bug in the sense that is always happens. It’s an anomaly that needs explaining by the WT developers.
No, that is a good point I did not make it clear what I encountered in as much detail as I should have done. But you can see now the problem I had, it was very peculiar.
Another issue I have noticed is that unlike the G1000 where the choice to load or activate is presented, the G3000 doesnt allow for activation until after the approach is loaded into the plan. In other words you have to press load first before you are then presented with buttons to activate or remove the approach procedure.
I am surprised by these differences when the two systems are broadly similar. Certainly the option to load or activate makes more sense in my opinion, not load followed by activate.
Well the NXi and G3000 are completely different systems. The NXi is based on the real G1000 but the G3000 is based on the default MSFS G3000
In the sim that may well be true, in the real world the two systems are similar and adapting to the G3000 is not terribly difficult if a pilot is familiar with the G1000, so I am told. I am hoping WT will give the G3000 the same attention to real world detail as the G1000 has received.