Garmin GPS III Owner's Manual

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5. Highlight the ‘Total Air Temperature’ (TAT) field and press ENTER. Enter the TAT andpress ENTER.NOTE: TAT is the temperature of the air including the heating effect caused by speed.The temperature reading on a standard outside air temperature gauge found on mostpiston aircraft is TAT.6. The ‘Density Altitude’ and ‘True Airspeed’ figures will appear at the bottom of the page.To calculate winds aloft:1. Select the ‘Winds’ file tab, using the rocker keypad.2. Highlight the ‘Heading’ field and press ENTER. Enter the current aircraft heading andpress ENTER.3. Highlight the ‘True Airspeed’ field and press ENTER. Enter the current true airspeedand press ENTER. (If the true airspeed was previously determined on the ‘DensityAltitude’ page, the calculated figure will automatically appear here as the default.)4. The ‘Head (Tail) Wind’, ‘Wind From’ and ‘Wind Speed’ figures will appear at the bottomof the page.Setup— provides a group of pages to perform various system setup functions,including selection of position format, units of measure, setting various alarms, con-figuring the display and backlighting. Each available page is denoted by a ‘file tab’which identifies the function of that page.To select a Setup option, highlight the file tab for the desired function.The information is automatically displayed when the file tab is highlighted.The ‘Winds’ option allows youto calculate the current head-wind or tailwind component.The ‘Setup’ option uses filetabs for quick selection/reviewof unit settings.76REFERENCEMain Menu / Setup#?