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Reference – Garmin GPS 150 User Manual

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Section 5

Unit Settings and Satellite Status

The GPS 150 will allow you to customize many settings to your preferences. Also,

it will provide information on the satellites it is currently tracking, which is helpful in
alerting you to possible problems with antenna installation, or receiver problems.

All of the GPS 150’s settings are accessed using the

S key. After pressing S,

the following pages can be accessed by rotating

O when the cursor is not flashing.

• CDI Scale/Arrival Alarm settings
• Route settings (Auto leg sequencing and auto leg selection)
• Magnetic variation setting
• Nearest airport search (Runway length and surface type)
• Battery saver (Timeout delay)
• Trip timer setting
• Navigation units (Distance, speed, position, etc.)
• SUA settings (On or off and altitude buffer)
• Map datums
• I/O Channels 1 & 2 settings
• Arinc 429 Output configuration
• Data transfer

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Unit Settings List

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