Garmin GPS 500 Pilot's Manual & Reference

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GPS 500 Pilot’s Guide and Reference 7-3SECTION 7NRST PAGESNavigating to a Nearby WaypointThe NRST pages can be used in conjunction with the500 Series direct-to function to quickly set a course to anearby facility, and can provide navigation to the nearestairport in case of an in-flight emergency.Selecting a nearby airport, VOR, NDB,intersection, or user waypoint as a direct-todestination:1) Use the flashing cursor to scroll through a NRSTpage list (Figure 7-5) and highlight the desirednearest waypoint, as outlined in Section 7.1.Figure 7-5 Nearest Airport Page2) Press the Direct-to Key to display the selectDirect-to Waypoint Page.3) Press the ENT Key to accept the selectedwaypoint’s identifier and press the ENT Keya second time with ‘Activate?’ highlighted tobegin navigating to the selected waypoint.7.2 NEAREST AIRPORT PAGEThe Nearest Airport Page displays the identifier, symbol,bearing, and distance to the nine nearest airports (within200 nm of the present position). For each airport listed,the Nearest Airport Page also indicates the best availableapproach, common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF),and the length of the longest runway (Figure 7-6).Figure 7-6 Nearest Airport PageAirport IdentifierSymbol, BearingTo, and Distance ToTower or CTAFFrequency andLongest RunwayBest AvailableApproachScrollBarNumber of Pages inCurrent Page GroupPosition ofCurrent Pagewithin CurrentPage GroupCurrentPage GroupThe Nearest Airport Page can be configured to excludeshorter runways or undesirable runway surface types,so that the corresponding airports do not appear on thelist. The pilot may wish to use this feature to excludeseaplane bases or runway lengths which would be difficultor impossible to land upon. See Section 8.5, Setup Page:Nearest Airport Criteria for additional details.190-00181-60 Rev. G