Takeoff tour – Garmin GNC 300XL TSO User Manual

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While the GNC 300XL is acquiring a position, let’s take a minute to dial in the

active and standby frequencies you’ll be using for the first phase of your flight. The
GNC 300XL’s display can be broken down into two separate ‘windows’ (or screen
areas), the comm window (the top line of the display) and the GPS window (the
bottom three lines of the display).

The

C key is used to activate the cursor in a particular window (see right) to

provide access to various comm and navigation features. To select the active frequency,
you must first enter the frequency in the standby field, and use the

@ key to move it

to the active field.

To change the standby communication frequency:

1. Press

C

once to activate the cursor in the comm window.

2. Rotate the outer knob (

O

) to select the MHz, and the inner knob (

K

) to select the kHz of

the desired frequency.

To place the standby frequency in the active field, press

@

.

Once you’ve entered the active frequency, simply repeat steps 1 and 2 to enter the

standby frequency. After both frequencies have been entered, you may elect to keep
the comm window ‘hot’ by leaving the cursor on the standby frequency, or remove the
cursor by pressing the

C key twice.

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Status page with cursor active in comm window.

TAKEOFF TOUR

Selecting Comm Frequencies

Comm Window

GPS Window

Standby

Active

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To switch the active and standby frequencies, press
the

@ key. Switching the active and standby

frequencies will not remove the cursor from the
comm window.

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