G5 HSI question

[haymak3r]

So, I was on training the other day, and my instructor wanted me to fly out and create a hold off a specific radial at 25dme..

I have a kns80, so I just tuned to the vor, and instantly had my dme from that. But I would like to have had the gtn in vloc mode, and the g5 providing the dme as well. 

What I believe I ended up doing was adding the vor to the flight plan, and setting the OBS to the correct radial. and used GPS which then gave me my distance from the vor station. I just don't feel like that was correct, but it worked.

 

So my question is. Can the g5 hsi provide the distance from the nav source when in vloc? I've googled for the last hour, looked at youtube for any video's I could find with g5's where they were in vloc, checked the pilots guide, and even used chatgpt. Which it said yes, if wired/configured correctly this should be displayed.

I have my doubts that this is a thing, so wanted to check with you all as well. On the GTN I know I have a few options in the user fields like Distance to Waypoint, and there is a VOR/LOC - Tuned VOR/LOC info selection too. Maybe others.. But I would very much like to see this on my hsi if at all possible.

Cheers!

 

Chris

[Ragsf15e]

23 minutes ago, haymak3r said:

So, I was on training the other day, and my instructor wanted me to fly out and create a hold off a specific radial at 25dme..

I have a kns80, so I just tuned to the vor, and instantly had my dme from that. But I would like to have had the gtn in vloc mode, and the g5 providing the dme as well. 

What I believe I ended up doing was adding the vor to the flight plan, and setting the OBS to the correct radial. and used GPS which then gave me my distance from the vor station. I just don't feel like that was correct, but it worked.

 

So my question is. Can the g5 hsi provide the distance from the nav source when in vloc? I've googled for the last hour, looked at youtube for any video's I could find with g5's where they were in vloc, checked the pilots guide, and even used chatgpt. Which it said yes, if wired/configured correctly this should be displayed.

I have my doubts that this is a thing, so wanted to check with you all as well. On the GTN I know I have a few options in the user fields like Distance to Waypoint, and there is a VOR/LOC - Tuned VOR/LOC info selection too. Maybe others.. But I would very much like to see this on my hsi if at all possible.

Cheers!

 

Chris

I’ll be interested to see the answers here.  Just the other day I was flying an ils and the g5/gns430w combo had already switched to vloc.  I wanted to know distance to the faf and caught myself looking at the top right of the g5, but there was nothing there… 

I do not think it displays dme to the gps nav point in vloc but I don’t know for certain.  I do have both bearing pointers set however- one to the vor and one to gps point. That is occasionally useful.

[N201MKTurbo]

The G5 only interfaces with RS232 and ARINC data sources, so it will not display DME distances. It could display a GPS derived distance, but I can't recall if it does when in VLOC. If you were on an approach, the only thing that would make sense would be the distance to the airport. Slightly different than DME distance to the localizer transmitter.

[Ragsf15e]

35 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

The G5 only interfaces with RS232 and ARINC data sources, so it will not display DME distances. It could display a GPS derived distance, but I can't recall if it does when in VLOC. If you were on an approach, the only thing that would make sense would be the distance to the airport. Slightly different than DME distance to the localizer transmitter.

Yeah, agreed.  I was thinking it would be nice to display gps distance to the next waypoint.  When an approach is loaded in the gps, it does display this distance to the next waypoint (could be faf or some other point depending on what you loaded) until it switches to vloc.  Then you have to look at the gps to get that distance information.  

[rbp]

if you have an approach-capable GPS, then the GPS will calculate the distance to the next waypoint which is the VOR and display that in the flight plan. 

[haymak3r]

Yes. I can also have a user field for the VOR, which gives the name/radial/distance. But, I was hoping I could get it over on the g5. I don't think it's possible. oh well.

[JimB]

I have dual G5s, a GNX 375 and a GNC 255. I agree it will not directly show distance to the VOR in VLOC on the G5. When flying a DME arc, I have to use the distance readout at the bottom of the GNC 255 which is actually based on GPS distance or put the VOR waypoint in the GPS and use the distance on the GPS while twisting and turning the VOR for the arc.

[Ragsf15e]

2 hours ago, JimB said:

I have dual G5s, a GNX 375 and a GNC 255. I agree it will not directly show distance to the VOR in VLOC on the G5. When flying a DME arc, I have to use the distance readout at the bottom of the GNC 255 which is actually based on GPS distance or put the VOR waypoint in the GPS and use the distance on the GPS while twisting and turning the VOR for the arc.

Or you could also put in the vor as the active gps waypoint and fly the arc in gps mode on the g5 (using gps as a legal substitute for the vor). Then you will have the gps distance displayed on the top right corner of the g5.  Depending on how your g5 is set up, you could possibly have a bearing pointer to the raw vor data at the same time (by displaying nav 2 as the #2 bearing pointer).  
 

On an ils however, we have to be in vloc after the faf, so don’t have the option to stay in the gps mode to get the waypoint distance on the g5.