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.
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.
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?
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.
Seems like a nice GTN, but their massively outdated database is a deal-breaker.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.
Im considering the TDS for my custom built home sim. Trying to verify that it is possible to control the gtnxi via remote display (like ipad). Is that correct?
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.
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?
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.
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!
@@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
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.
