Garmin G950 Pilot’s Guide for the Pilatus PC-6
190-00870-02 Rev. Avi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1 SYSTEM OVERVIEW
1.1 Line Replaceable Units ........................................... 2
1.2 Secure Digital (SD) Cards ....................................... 7
1.3 System Power-up..................................................... 8
1.4 System Operation.................................................... 9
Display Operation......................................................... 9
G950 System Annunciations ........................................ 10
System Status............................................................. 11
AHRS Operation ......................................................... 13
GPS Receiver Operation .............................................. 14
1.5 G950 Controls........................................................ 19
PFD/MFD Controls ...................................................... 19
Softkey Function......................................................... 21
1.6 Accessing G950 Functionality.............................. 27
Menus....................................................................... 27
Data Entry.................................................................. 28
Page Groups .............................................................. 29
System Settings.......................................................... 33
System Utilities........................................................... 43
1.7 Display Backlighting ............................................. 47
SECTION 2 FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS
2.1 Flight Instruments................................................. 52
Airspeed Indicator ...................................................... 52
Attitude Indicator ....................................................... 54
Altimeter ................................................................... 55
Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI)....................................... 58
Vertical Deviation ....................................................... 58
Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI) .............................. 59
Course Deviation Indicator (CDI) .................................. 64
2.2 Supplemental Flight Data .................................... 71
Outside Air Temperature.............................................. 71
Wind Data ................................................................. 72
Vertical Navigation (VNV) Indications........................... 73
2.3 PFD Annunciations and Alerting Functions ........ 74
System Alerting .......................................................... 74
Marker Beacon Annunciations...................................... 75
Traffic Annunciation.................................................... 75
Terrain Annunciations ................................................. 76
Altitude Alerting......................................................... 76
Low Altitude Annunciation .......................................... 77
Minimum Descent Altitude/Decision Height Alerting ...... 77
2.4 Abnormal Operations ........................................... 79
Abnormal GPS Conditions ........................................... 79
Heading Failure Modes................................................ 80
Unusual Attitudes....................................................... 80
SECTION 3 ENGINE INDICATION SYSTEM
3.1 Engine Display ....................................................... 84
3.2 System Display ...................................................... 86
3.3 Fuel Display............................................................ 88
3.4 EIS Display in Reversionary Mode....................... 90
EIS Softkeys ............................................................... 91
SECTION 4 AUDIO PANEL AND CNS
4.1 Overview ................................................................ 93
PFD Controls and Frequency Display............................. 94
GMA 347 Audio Panel Controls.................................... 96
4.2 COM Operation...................................................... 98
COM Transceiver Selection and Activation..................... 98
COM Transceiver Manual Tuning .................................. 99
Quick-tuning and Activating 121.500 MHz.................. 100
Auto-tuning the COM Frequency................................ 101
Auto-tuning from the MFD ........................................ 102
Frequency Spacing.................................................... 105
Automatic Squelch.................................................... 106
Volume.................................................................... 106
4.3 NAV Operation..................................................... 107
NAV Radio Selection and Activation ........................... 107
NAV Receiver Manual Tuning ..................................... 108
Auto-tuning a NAV Frequency from the MFD............... 110
Auto-tuning NAV Frequencies on Approach Activation . 114
Marker Beacon Receiver............................................ 115
4.4 GTX 33 Mode S Transponder.............................. 116
Transponder Controls................................................ 116
Transponder Mode Selection...................................... 117
Entering a Transponder Code ..................................... 120
IDENT Function ........................................................ 121
ADS-B TX ................................................................. 121
Flight ID Reporting.................................................... 122
4.5 Additional Audio Panel Functions ..................... 123
Power-Up................................................................. 123
Mono/Stereo Headsets.............................................. 123
Speaker ................................................................... 123
Intercom.................................................................. 124
