Moving Map & Charts

The map page and the chart products behind it.

The Map page

Zoom with the range keys, the knob, or a pinch; the range readout describes the on-map range bar. Press MENU for the Map Options popup: the left side toggles layers in place — terrain shading, topo shading, weather, traffic, profile view — and the Map Detail picker steps through four quick-declutter levels; the right side jumps to Map Setup, graphical flight plan editing, the weather legend, and distance measuring.

The map draws in a VFR or IFR presentation — IFR switches to a white background with black airways and boxed idents, the way an enroute chart reads. Day/night color modes for map and charts live in Setup → Display, each selectable as Day, Night, or Auto by local time.

Overlays

• Airways — low, high, or both; airway waypoints stay visible while airways are shown. Touching an airway opens a review page listing its segment.
• Airspace — with optional Smart Airspace, which bolds the airspace pertinent to your current altitude and dims the rest, and altitude labels (ceiling over floor) that appear at your chosen range.
• Obstacles — with red/yellow threat coloring by relative altitude and MSL/AGL labels.
• Weather — NEXRAD precipitation and METAR flags from live real-world data.
• Traffic, runway extensions, and proximity-waypoint rings.

Range rings that answer questions

• Fuel-range ring — two rings, reserve and empty, computed from the fuel totalizer and displaced by the wind.
• Glide ring — your power-off glide footprint from the airframe’s glide numbers, wind-displaced, fading in as you climb through 500 ft AGL.
• Selected-altitude intercept arc — the banana bar: where you’ll reach the selected altitude at the current vertical speed.

Pan and measure

Drag to pan — your aircraft keeps flying while the map holds your point; BACK or the re-center button snaps home. Measure Distance (from Map Options) drops a pin and reads bearing and distance to anything you touch; Set Ref re-bases the pin so you can walk legs across the map. Touching the selection band opens a detail window for whatever’s selected — airport, airspace, obstacle, TFR text, or a raw map position you can save as a user waypoint.

Auto-zoom

With a waypoint active, the map picks the range that keeps it clearly in view. Change range by hand and auto-zoom stands down until the active waypoint changes, you take off, or an alert needs your attention — then it resumes. Landing at your destination zooms to the airport diagram range automatically.

Profile view

Map Options → Profile View adds the forward terrain profile strip below the map — the Terrain page’s cross-section of what’s ahead of you, without leaving the map.

Map Setup

Main Menu → Setup → Map (or Set Up Map… from Map Options) is the deep configuration window: a live preview map on top and twelve tabs — General, Map, Line, Traffic, Airport, Navaid, Airspace, and more — controlling per-feature visibility and ranges. Its MENU offers single-item, per-category, and restore-all defaults.

En Route Charts

The Charts page is a moving map whose basemap is the FAA raster chart — georeferenced VFR sectional, IFR low, or IFR high — with your ownship, route, and traffic drawn directly on it. If a chart product isn’t in your installed data pack, the page says so plainly rather than silently swapping products. Orientation can follow your map settings or stay north-up.

Plates, diagrams, and the Chart Supplement

FAA publications live on the Waypoint page’s Charts tab: current-cycle approach plates (APR), departures (DP), arrivals (STAR), and info documents — airport diagrams and the Chart Supplement entry — one tap from the airport’s waypoint page. The first plate selects automatically and the viewer expands to full screen.