GNS480 CNX80

GNS480 ( CNX80 ) Integrated Avionics System Features

The Apollo GNS480( CNX80 ) takes a Quantum Leap into the future of airborne navigation. The GNS480( CNX80 ) is by far the most advanced integrated avionics system designed for general aviation. The unit is approved for primary navigation and includes the industry’s first certified WAAS/GPS navigator opening up thousands of airports in IFR conditions.

Add to this a high resolution, sunlight readable moving-map display with 256 color combinations and our award winning VHF Nav/Comm with VOR Nav, localizer, and glide slope receivers all integrated in one compact package. The GNS480( CNX80 ) frees up precious panel space with added functionality to control a remote mounted transponder. The Apollo GNS480( CNX80 ) is setting the standard for integrated avionics.

The GNS480( CNX80 ) will be the first navigator approved under the FAA’s new TSO C-146a. Only C-146a devices can be approved for primary navigation and are required to meet more stringent environmental qualifications, satisfy higher software integrity levels with new leg types and transitions, while insuring improved integrity and availability during precision approach operations.

The FAA’s new Wide Area Augmentation System or WAAS dramatically improves the accuracy, integrity, and availability of GPS. The GNS480( CNX80 ) incorporates a new 15-channel WAAS receiver designed by UPS Aviation Technologies specifically for airborne applications. GPS position is computed 5 times per second with vertical and horizontal accuracy of 2-meters, improving safety while dramatically increasing cockpit capabilities.

Capabilities like primary navigation during the en route, terminal, and approach phases of flight enabling the use of GPS for approach procedures with vertical guidance into 100’s and eventually 1,000’s of airports without an existing precision approach. And in the very near future you will be able to use the GNS480( CNX80 ) to fly new GLS approaches providing the accuracy and safety of an ILS. WAAS is just the start of a long list of GNS480( CNX80 ) features and benefits. The navigator is loaded with the most advanced features ever developed starting with Airway depiction and navigation. Included in the comprehensive Jeppesen database are pre-stored navaids, airspace, all DP’s and STAR’s, Instrument Approach Procedures including ILS’s, holding patterns, procedure turns, and missed approach procedures. Available at your fingertips this information can be entered into any flight plan, but what makes the GNS480( CNX80 ) different from other navigators is the unit’s ability to provide guidance on these procedures and approaches from takeoff rotation to landing flare.

Imagine filing a flight plan receiving your clearance and programming the approved flight plan in the exact same manner. For example, if assigned a clearance from Portland to Seattle via the River Six Departure, direct BTG VOR-V495-SEA. The GNS480( CNX80 ) lets the pilot quickly insert standard procedures and airways exactly as assigned by ATC. Trips can be easily tailored to use “mixed” flight plans with efficient direct-to routing or airways with only a few button presses.

The GNS480( CNX80 ) couples guidance information directly to autopilots accepting roll-steering commands and flies the aircraft waypoint to waypoint, airway to airway, automatically transitioning through holding patterns, procedure turns, vectors to final, and on to the intended approach. The GNS480( CNX80 ) anticipates every new leg change, intercepts the new course with the accuracy and precision of more expensive air transport systems. This new addition to our product line utilizes the best of space and ground based navaids to provide seamless navigation when transitioning between WAAS/GPS to VOR/ILS. Built-in switching and annunciation simplifies installations and improves reliability.

The GNS480( CNX80 ) also includes our patented Nav/Comm features including Standby frequency monitoring which lets pilots listen to transmissions like ATIS and AWOS or the emergency channel without leaving the active frequency. Our patented Nav receiver automatically decodes and displays the Morse code station identifier for any tuned VOR/LOC/ILS. The pilot can use one nav receiver to cross check position fixes, a handy feature during approach operations.

The GNS480( CNX80 ) is also the first integrated navigator designed for general aviation with voice prompting and audio alerting. For instance, when a count down timer expires or upon waypoint arrival, an audio ding is generated through the intercom alerting the pilot. In addition, the GNS480( CNX80 ) will also say “localizer alive” when the needles begin deflect during an ILS approach, and at 500 feet above the runway during an approach the unit will announce “500.” The GNS480( CNX80 ) will also advise the pilot at the missed approach point by announcing “Missed Approach Point.”

Multiple checklists can be customized and entered into the GNS480( CNX80 ) and referenced during flight and there are 2 general count up or down timers, one programmable flight timer and one trip timer.

The GNS480( CNX80 ) is by far the most advanced integrated avionics system available for general aviation and is designed to work in concert with the popular MX20 multi-function display. The MX20 creates a benchmark for situational awareness in the cockpit and received the “Aviation Consumer Magazine” Product of the Year award in 2001. Additional features and tighter integration are available when the MX20 is paired with the GNS480( CNX80 ).

Changing ranges on the GNS480( CNX80 ) automatically controls ranges on the MX20. Even more impressive is when an approach is selected on the GNS480( CNX80 ); the approach plate is automatically depicted on the MX20 with Chart View. This combination greatly reduces pilot workload and is simply unbeatable for situational awareness in all phases of flight.

A new split screen feature for the MX20 has also been added to allow side-by-side displays of any two MX20 charting functions. Terrain mapping on one side and VFR sectionals on the other , Weather Radar depictions with an IFR en route chart, an Approach Chart with Custom Map, any combination can be viewed side-by-side. In addition, a new vertical profile image can be viewed at any time on the MX20. Pilots can view terrain peaks and obstructions relative to the current flight level along the entire route of flight. Conflicts are easily seen and avoided for the ultimate in terrain awareness. The GNS480( CNX80 ) and MX20 are powerful additions to any panel.

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