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INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
TERRAIN/Obstacle Database Areas of Coverage .................................................................................36
Navigation Database ...........................................................................................................................36
Nearest Airport C
riteria & TERRAIN Phase of Flight .........................................................................37
TERRAIN Destination Airport ............................................................................................................37
Section 3: TERRAIN Alerts ..........................................................................................................38
Pop-up Alerts ....................................................................................................................................38
Forward Looking TERRAIN Avoidance ..............................................................................................
39
Premature Descent Alerting (PDA) .....................................................................................................
40
TERRAIN Failure Alert .......................................................................................................................41
‘TERRAIN Not Available’ A
lert ...........................................................................................................41
TERRAIN Alert Summary ...................................................................................................................
42
PART FOUR:
TAWS INTERFACE
Section 1: Introduction ...............................................................................................................43
Overview ...........................................................................................................................................
43
Operating Criteria ..............................................................................................................................43
GPS Position and GPS-MSL Altitude ..................................................................................................43
TAWS Alerting using the GPS Position/GPS-MSL Altitude ..................................................................
44
Baro-Corrected Altitude verses GPS-MSL Altitude ..............................................................................
44
Premature Descent Alerting (PDA) using GPS-MSL Altitude ...............................................................
44
Limitations .........................................................................................................................................45
Section 2: TAWS Operation .........................................................................................................46
Power Up ...........................................................................................................................................46
TAWS
Page ........................................................................................................................................46
Inhibit Mode ......................................................................................................................................48
TAWS Manual Test .............................................................................................................................
49
