Garmin aera 500 Series Quick Reference Guide190-01117-03 Rev. A itable of contentsSection 1 Overview ........................................................................................ 11.1 Unit Overview............................................................................................................11.2 Getting Started .........................................................................................................2Battery Installation ............................................................................................................... 2Charging the Battery ............................................................................................................ 3Changing Modes .................................................................................................................. 3GPS Receiver Status ............................................................................................................. 31.3 Operation ...................................................................................................................4Basic Navigation Controls..................................................................................................... 4‘Home’ Screen...................................................................................................................... 5Selecting a Function ............................................................................................................. 8Scrolling............................................................................................................................... 91.4 accessing System Functionality ...............................................................................9Option Menus ...................................................................................................................... 9Data Entry.......................................................................................................................... 101.5 Using Map displays .................................................................................................11Map Panning ..................................................................................................................... 11Map Range ........................................................................................................................ 12Map Overlays ..................................................................................................................... 12Section 2 GPS Navigation ............................................................................ 132.1 Flight data ...............................................................................................................13Data Fields ......................................................................................................................... 13Numeric Flight Data ........................................................................................................... 132.2 hSi/Panel ..................................................................................................................14Changing the CDI Scale ...................................................................................................... 14Setting the Bug Indicator .................................................................................................... 14Manually Setting a Course.................................................................................................. 142.3 vertical Navigation (vNav) ....................................................................................15Using the VNAV Feature ..................................................................................................... 152.4 waypoints ................................................................................................................16Nearest Information ........................................................................................................... 17Weather Information .......................................................................................................... 17User Waypoints .................................................................................................................. 182.5 direct-to Navigation ...............................................................................................19Section 3 Flight Planning............................................................................. 213.1 Flight Plan data Fields ............................................................................................213.2 Flight Plan creation ................................................................................................213.3 adding Flight Plan waypoints ................................................................................233.4 Flight Plan Storage .................................................................................................233.5 Flight Plan activation .............................................................................................243.6 Flight Plan deletion ................................................................................................243.7 approaches ..............................................................................................................25