21TAKEOFF TOURFlight PlansThe 500W-series unit lets you create up to 20 flightplans, with up to 31 waypoints in each flight plan.Flight plans are created, edited and activated using theFPL key. The FPL page group includes two pages: theActive Flight Plan Page and the Flight Plan Catalog.The Active Flight Plan Page provides informationand editing features for the flight plan currently inuse (referred to as “flight plan 00”). The Flight PlanCatalog serves as the main page for creating new flightplans, as well as editing or activating previously cre-ated flight plans.Active Flight Plan Page with flight plan cur-rently in use.Since using flight plans is arguably one of the morecomplex features of the 500W-series unit, we’ll only dis-cuss it briefly here — focusing on creating a new flightplan and activating it to use for navigation. Additionalinformation about flight plans can be found in theFlight Plan section (Section 4).To create a new flight plan:1. Press the FPL key and turn the small rightknob to select the Flight Plan Catalog.2. Press the MENU key to display the Flight PlanCatalog Options.3. Turn the large right knob to select “CreateNew Flight Plan?” and press ENT.To create a new flight plan, select “Cre-ate New Flight Plan?” from the Flight PlanCatalog Options.4. The cursor appears on the first waypoint identi-fier field (located directly below “WAYPOINT”).Use the large and small right knobs to enterthe identifier of the first waypoint in the flightplan (the small knob is used to select thedesired letter or number and the large knob isused to move to the next character space.).Enter the identifier for each airport and/ornavaid into the flight plan in the samesequence you wish to fly.5. Press ENT once the identifier has been selected.The cursor moves to the next blank waypointidentifier field.6. Repeat steps 4 and 5, above, until all waypointsfor the flight plan have been entered.Flight Plans
