Ragsf15e Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 On 3/11/2020 at 8:53 AM, jcovington said: To enter the Frankston VOR (FZT) 334 radial 11 DME into Garmin Pilot it is FZT334011. I believe it is the same in the GNS530/430. I get a similar clearance when I fly from El Paso to Tucson. It took some head scratching to remember the first time since it is a fairly uncommon clearance. I asked Albuquerque center the reason for the VOR/radial/dme clearance and they said it was a requirement from Tucson approach. Jim Just for kicks I played with this today on the way to Boise. In a G1000, you can’t directly enter a vor/radial/dme. I seriously doubt it will work in a 430/530 either, but I’ll try it tomorrow and report back. You can definitely do the user waypoint method mentioned in earlier posts. A few pictures of the process are below. Although it wasn’t difficult on autopilot at 23,000’, I think I’d still be hesitant to hand fly the airplane in busy airspace while typing in all the info. “Unable” or “request a heading” might still be better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragsf15e Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 430W works the same way as the G1000 above. You can’t just input a VOR/RADIAL/DME. You have to create a new user waypoint and can assign the location off a VOR radial/dme. It was enough knob twisting that I definitely wouldn’t do it while hand flying ifr. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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