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TDS Garmin GTNXi | Amazing Little-Known Features | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2024
- The Garmin GTNXi by TDS Simulations is packed full of useful features for use in Microsoft Flight Simulator. This video features 3 little known features that I use quite often that may be helpful to others.
1. Loading an approach. Approaches with LPV minimums can be loaded into the GPS without navigating several menu screens. This method is a very fast way of entering an RNAV approach with LPV minimums.
2. Traffic Information. Did you know more information about nearby traffic can be discovered?
3. Missing airports or points of interest can be entered with "User Waypoints" with the aid of Google Earth or Google Maps.
The Garmin GTN 750xi is shown, but this also works for the Garmin GTN 650xi by TDS.
More information on the Garmin GTNXi for MSFS can be found at www.tdssim.com/
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Love the 750, fly a GTN 650 IRL so can most of the menus are similar / same. Funny that I've been at Conservancy Field and Christy Ranch on Santa Cruz Island but haven't had a chance to fly into it yet. Very wild and pretty place.
Small and hidden away airports are the coolest! The GTN is an amazing piece of equipment. The first GPS I ever used was a Morrow GPS with 2 lines per tiny LCD screen in a Cessna 172. Before that, having a rental airplane with DME or LORAN was like magic. The technology in aircraft avionics is making the interface easier to use and increasing situational awareness by leaps and bounds.
@@thecorporatepilotdad I started with a loran and then the north star gps which had 2! Knobs and about 40 characters in the display. But boy was it better than a fixed card adf and was a poor man’s RMI
@@planeplaces RMIs were great but you are right on the money about GPS. Being able to see groundspeed anywhere along the route with an accurate ETE to the destination was mind-blowing.
Love this TDS unit. I have had to use the create user waypoint for an airport that wasn’t already in it and it is such a useful feature. Didn’t know about the other features you mentioned! Thanks for pointing them out. 🍻
The TDS unit is amazing and kudos to the programmers who made it. It is so easy to use, and it can do so much more than just routing. I've had to create user waypoints more than once except all my waypoints were lost when my C drive crashed a few weeks ago.
@@thecorporatepilotdad ah how frustrating!!
@@Dreamsofwings it was but the new drive is twice the size and faster so space is no longer an issue… for now.
@@thecorporatepilotdad sounds like you have a lot of user waypoint mapping potential there 🤣
@@Dreamsofwings I do indeed and the TDS GTNXi holds 999 waypoints. 998 more to add.
Very interesting video. I bet not many people know of this. I own the PMS5 GTN 750 Premium but I still enjoyed the video. I'm impressed on how programmers can do all of this.
The real one does this and many GPS units have the ability to program an RNAV approach with the WAAS channel. Does that function work with the PMS version?
@@thecorporatepilotdad I will check that out later in the week.
@@thecorporatepilotdad I tried it with the PMS5 750 and it doesn't work as Channel ID is grayed out and I have the premium version.
@@GumperVanLier well that’s a bummer.
I hope they can get NEXRAD or some kinda weather radar. I like it over the PMS
Seems like a nice GTN, but their massively outdated database is a deal-breaker. PMS50 might not be as fancy as this one, but at least it uses the Navigraph data.
This video is not meant to compare either GTN or to persuade anyone to buy either unit.
I agree, massive waste of money for me! I wish I could sell it. The video itself was great though.
Hello, nice video. I just have installed this GTN and it looks very well. But when I make a Flightplan in the first screen, it is not active in the second screen. How can I fix this when I want to use the two screens parallel. Hope you can help me.
With two GTNs, they work independently of one another. As far as I know, you’ll need to program the route in the other GTN.
Great video thanks for sharing, I have an issues. I dont see any traffic on my traffic page 😢.
Do you not see traffic even at busy airports? If not, contact the developer on their website or Discord.
@thecorporatepilotdad I don't see multi-player traffic, AI traffic shows up tho. I will contact them
Cool tips. I'm still learning this unit. It doesn't seem intuitive to me when trying to insert a waypoint after a particular fix. It puts them down at the bottom under the destination. I know I'm missing an entry because they obviously wouldn't design it that way. In the 737 you simply brought a waypoint down to the scratch pad and then bring it up on the legs page where you want it. This surely works the same way somehow.
If you type in the route on the flight plan page it will go in order. If there is a fix you're trying it insert into an existing route, click the fix and select insert before or insert after (depending on where you need the fix) and type the fix. There is no scratch pad, but once you get used to the GTN 750, it's an amazing unit and works quite well.
@@thecorporatepilotdad yeah thanks, I’m new with it and I tried before and after but it didn’t appear to be added correctly either way. I will get it through trial and error. I do enjoy playing with it.
@@paulwilson8367 If you make a route such as KLAX SLI KAVX, the route should be in the order it is entered. The destination should be the very last point entered into the route.
In the traffic warning, all I get is the words traffic! But not a verbal announcement like I get with the TAWS, is there a setting I need to change?
Go to your sound settings in Windows. The TDS GTNXi runs as a separate program and has its own volume controls. I have the opposite problem where my sim is turned down and the alerts from the TDS are super loud unless adjusted.
I am always amazed when ppl use a computer to simulate flying and within that use a computer to not having to fly at all.
Haha! So true... you got me! 😂👍🏻
WAAS is supported (@3:41), how about EGNOS (Europe)?
It's Microsoft Flight Simulator. No GPS information is used. Signals are simulated.
Will this airport get saved so I can just pull it up next time or do I have to enter the LAT/LONG every time and create it?
The waypoints will be saved. Mine were saved until my hard drive crashed and lost them all.
Thank you for this information. I knew that it's possible to enter user waypoints into the unit, but had no idea that the other two features were possible. (Personally, I've always used a 'user.wpt' file for my user waypoints and have imported them from that. Although it's useful for quickly inputting a lot of user waypoints, I'm not sure if I could then specify if one was an airport - I'll have to look into that.)
Is the method of inputting the approach you demonstrated using the WAAS channel number only possible for approaches with LPV minima because WAAS is needed to provide the required accuracy for the approach guidance?
You are searching the data base of the channel number and only one ID channel number is associated with that approach.😁🛫
@richavery66 yes. If LPV mins are not given, there won’t be a WAAS channel to enter for that approach.
Basic question. ILS setup. I enter the two airports on left screen (right one is map or traffic, etc) then left I select procedure.I see departure and arrival and then the selected procedure. Flying along (I have no intermediate waypoints) the FMC “ignores” the procedure and just heads to the airport. What’s wrong?
Thanks!
Did you select load approach?
@@thecorporatepilotdad
I selected approach when near or on IAF, I guess time to reinstall tds.
@@gregmiller7584 After loading an approach on my sim, the GPS displays departure, destination, then the approach followed by the waypoints of the approach. Everything looks normal.
@@thecorporatepilotdad
Thanks for reply, I know you’re busy. When I’m setting up a flight, gps has my departure and then asks for a waypoint, not destination. Nonetheless I put in my destination airport and the approach. I check the frequency’s are correct. What is happening is that the flight path is going direct to destination airport NOT the IAF. Btw I’ve made many good approaches, this is a recent problem. Bug?
@@gregmiller7584 Here is a work around i found for that. have the same problem. when you load the approach it goes in after the airport which then has you go from waypoint x to airport then out to approach. so delete the airport and insert it after the runway on the approach. this should take you from waypoint x to the start of the approach
How can one have duel 750’s in the panel?
The TDS or PMS 750 needs to be purchased and the FlySimWare Cessna 414 needs to be owned which is set up for dual Garmin units. If either are owned, select the 414 and under LIVERIES, select the PMS or TDS version down towards the bottom of all the liveries.
@@thecorporatepilotdad Understood. Thanks.
Too hard and expansive to update the Airac .I’m prefering the PMS
This video is intended to show little known features of the TDS for those who own it, not to sell it or compare the two.
I just wish it was not 52$.
I can't even get it to turn on. Total waste of money
I suggest contacting the developer on Discord or through their website. When you get it working you will love it.
I commented but the comment has disappeared.😮💨🛫
I wonder why. This one showed up.
I don't know if it's the one you mean, but a comment of yours is in the replies to a comment I made.
Hum thanks for letting me know😀🛫