Cockpit Reference Guide

Garmin G1000 Cockpit Reference Guide for the Beechcraft 200/B200 Series
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5) Turn the large FMS Knob highlight to the ‘DIAMETER / RTE WIDTH’
distance field and turn the small FMS Knob to select the desired diameter
and route width of the request, then press the ENT Key.
6) Turn the large FMS Knob until the ‘SEND REQ’ button is highlighted. Press
the ENT Key to initiate the request immediately or press the FMS Knob to
return to the GFDS Data Link Page without requesting data.
During a GFDS Data Request, the Request Status box initially displays “Contacting
GFDS...”. Once a connection is established, the Request Status Box displays “Receiving
Wx Data... Time Remaining:” with an estimated data transfer time (either minutes or
seconds). If desired, the GFDS Data Request window may be closed while the data request
is processing by pressing the FMS Knob; the data request will continue to process in the
background. GFDS Data Requests typically take between 1 to 4 minutes to complete
depending on the size of the selected weather coverage area and Iridium signal strength.
The system retrieves all available Worldwide Weather products within the selected
coverage area during an initial GFDS Data Request, regardless of which products (if
any) are currently enabled for display. On subsequent requests, previously retrieved
textual data (such as METARs and TAFS) is retained if it has not expired, while new
textual weather data matching the current coverage area and all graphical weather data is
downloaded during every data request.
If the system cannot complete a GFDS weather data request, one or more messages
will appear in the request status window as shown in the following table.
Weather Request
Status Message
Description
Auto requests inhibited
Send manual request
to reset.
The system has disabled automatic weather data requests
due to excessive errors. Automatic weather data requests
have stopped. Send a manual weather data request to
resume automatic updates.
Auto update retry: ##
Seconds
The system will attempt another automatic weather data
request after an error occurred during the previous request.
Timer counts down until the next automatic request occurs.
GFDS Comm Error [2] A communications error has occurred with the GIA. The
system should be serviced.
GFDS Comm Error [4] This occurs if multiple automatic weather data requests have
recently failed, or the GDL 59 or a GIA is off-line.