Garmin G500 Pilots Guide - Page 129

4 Hazard Avoidance Foreword Sec 1 System Sec 2 PFD Sec 3 MFD Sec 4 Hazard Avoidance Features The G500 hazard avoidance features are designed to provide advisory information of potential hazards to flight safety associated with weather, terrain, and air traffic. This section is divided into the following groups: Terrain Avoidance • Terrain Proximity • Garmin Terrain-SVT™ (Optional) Traffic Avoidance • Traffic Advisory System (Optional) • Traffic Information Service (TIS) (Optional - GTX 33/330 Transponder required) Weather • GDL 69/69A XM® Satellite Weather (Optional) • GWX 68 Weather Radar (Optional) 4.1 Terrain Configurations During power-up of the G500, the terrain/obstacle database versions are displayed along with a disclaimer. At the same time, the Terrain system self-test begins. A failure message is issued if the terrain test fails. Garmin provides the following terrain awareness solutions within the G500 environment: • TERRAIN-SVT - Refers to a subset of Class B TAWS that meets the terrain alerting requirements outlined in Section 7.b of AC 23-26. TERRAIN-SVT is a subset of Class B TAWS that provides a Class B TAWS FLTA functionality, including visual alerting and aural alerting. TERRAIN-SVT is provided with the Synthetic Vision functionality and not marketed separately. Sec 5 Additional Sec 6 Annun. & Alerts Sec 7 Symbols Sec 8 Glossary Appendix A NOTE: Terrain-SVT is not a fully functional TAWS and does not meet the TAWS TSO-C151b requirements. Appendix B Index • TERRAIN-PROXIMITY - Refers to the display of the relative terrain elevations on the moving map. No aural alerts of any type are provided by a TERRAINPROXIMITY configuration. 190-01102-02 Rev. B Garmin G500 Pilot's Guide 4-1