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Subscribers to Garmin’s database of guided visual approaches have 15 new approaches to fly and 10 airports added to the database. Guided visual approaches can be loaded in avionics and flown (by hand or autopilot-coupled) like traditional instrument approaches and give pilots stabilized, obstacle-free lateral and vertical guidance to the runway.

The guided visual approaches are available for aircraft equipped with “Garmin WAAS-equipped avionics capable of RF legs, such as the GTN and GTN Xi series navigators, and select Garmin integrated flight decks,” according to Garmin. Each approach is depicted on a georeferenced approach chart, accessed via Garmin’s FliteCharts system, and they are briefed and flown like any approach, although they are visual procedures for use only in visual meteorological conditions.

Developed by Hughes Aerospace, the approach database now includes procedures for Long Beach (KLGB) and San Jose, California; Macon County (1A5), North Carolina; Aspen, Colorado (KASE), Runway 15; Salida, Colorado (KANK); and more.

According to Garmin, “Guided visuals enhance approach safety by enabling more stabilized visual approaches in faster turbine aircraft, especially when flying into airports in areas of higher terrain and obstacles. Guided visuals also aid pilots flying visual approaches into airports surrounded by cityscapes and lights at night, making it easier to stay in visual contact with the runway.”