Finley Atherton
Well Known Member
Two of us in Australia with GTN 650s and Propilots have the same issue where the Propilot loses GPS input in missed approaches ending with “Vectors” on the GTN Flight Plan page. Using Inverell as an example:
At IVLSH in the missed approach the Propilot starts the left turn to 173 degrees but within a few seconds it displays No GPS and goes into wings level mode. The GTN continues to work normally with full satellite reception. We discovered this in VMC but it would get your attention in IMC as there is no immediately obvious way to get GPS back to the Propilot.
After further investigation it seems that approaches ending with “Vectors” on the GTN Flight Plan page have this issue.
After trial and error we found that removing the approach from the GTN Flight Plan page restores GPS to the Propilot. Our interim solution is to load the approach and then remove the “Vectors” box from the end of the approach on the GTN and at IVLSH turn manually or with the Propilot in Course mode.
We have contacted Chuck at Trio and confirmed our wiring and settings. He thinks it is an issue with the serial link from the GTN and would need to analyse the serial data to see what’s going on. Anyone else had this issue or is it peculiar to Australia?
Fin
9A
At IVLSH in the missed approach the Propilot starts the left turn to 173 degrees but within a few seconds it displays No GPS and goes into wings level mode. The GTN continues to work normally with full satellite reception. We discovered this in VMC but it would get your attention in IMC as there is no immediately obvious way to get GPS back to the Propilot.
After further investigation it seems that approaches ending with “Vectors” on the GTN Flight Plan page have this issue.
After trial and error we found that removing the approach from the GTN Flight Plan page restores GPS to the Propilot. Our interim solution is to load the approach and then remove the “Vectors” box from the end of the approach on the GTN and at IVLSH turn manually or with the Propilot in Course mode.
We have contacted Chuck at Trio and confirmed our wiring and settings. He thinks it is an issue with the serial link from the GTN and would need to analyse the serial data to see what’s going on. Anyone else had this issue or is it peculiar to Australia?
Fin
9A
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