No Flight Mode Annuntiation in G500 ?

[jjkrijgsman]

Hi guys,

I am a new user of the G500 and bought it to use with the new A36 Bonanza as well as the G5´s. When using the glass cockpit in combination with the GFC500 autopilot I would expect to see FMA´s in the PFD of the G500, but there is none. Is this something that can be added somehow? 

I am happy with the G5´s that I use in the analog upgraded cockpit, which has FMA´s. Why is the G500 not picking this up?

Thanks for looking into this.

Joaquin

Edited Saturday at 12:49 PM by jjkrijgsman

[Coop]

The Garmin G500 (note, not the newer Garmin G500 TXi, which is an entirely different piece of avionics) does not have any autopilot mode indicators. It'll show the flight director, but the mode indication is something that would be indicated separately. Commonly G500 avionics equipped aircraft would either use a remote autopilot annunciator panel (GI 285 or similar) or an autopilot head unit that contains one bundled (such as the GMC605) -- or non Garmin APs such as Bendix-King or similar that have their own either internal or external mode annunciators.