190-00356-00 Rev G7 - NRST PAGES139Nearest AirportsNavigating to a Nearby WaypointThe NRST pages can be used in conjunction withthe direct-to function to quickly set a course to anearby facility. This feature can be a real time savercompared to retrieving information from the databaseusing the WPT pages. More importantly, it instantlyprovides navigation to the nearest airport in case of anin-flight emergency.To select a nearby airport, VOR, NDB, intersection or userwaypoint as a direct-to destination:1. Use the flashing cursor to scroll through a NRSTpage list and highlight the desired nearestwaypoint.2. Press direct-to to display the select direct-towaypoint page.3. Press ENT to accept the selected waypoint’sidentifier and press ENT a second time (with“Activate?” highlighted) to begin navigatingto the selected waypoint.Nearest Airport PageThe nearest airport page displays the identifier,symbol, bearing and distance to the 25 nearest airports(within 200 NM of your present position). For eachairport listed, the nearest airport page also indicates thebest available approach, common traffic advisory fre-quency (CTAF) and the length of the longest runway.Best AvailableApproachAirport Identifier,Symbol, Bearing Toand Distance ToFirst Pagein NRST groupTower or CTAFFrequency andLongest RunwayScroll BarThe nearest airportpage can be configured to exclude shorter runways orundesirable runway surface types, so that the corre-sponding airports do not appear on the list. You maywish to use this feature to exclude seaplane bases orrunway lengths which would be difficult or impossibleto land upon. See Sec 9 - Nearest Airport Criteria foradditional details.The nearest airport page may be used to quicklytune the COM transceiver to a nearby airport. Theselected frequency is placed in the standby field of theCOM window and activated using the COM flip-flopkey.
