Guys,I am having a hard time getting up to speed on the 530 GPS in the Centurion. There's tons of info and videos out there. Maybe too much. I am totally confused.Can someone point me to a tutorial for the 530 in the Centurion that can help? I watched a few on how to enter a flight plan and get stuck immediately. The videos show that the airport where you are located automatically shows up as the starting waypoint. Mine doesn't do that. It stays blank. I'm clueless.Thanks!!

Hi Pete, I don't have the plane - so I don't know how well the unit was modeled - but - on the real 530 the RIGHT KNOB BUTTON is depressed to make the cursor active on FLIGHT PLAN screen... It should start flashing in the first field to allow you to change the values... On the Reality XP GNS530 the click spot is adjacent to the knob... Once active the RIGHT LARGE and SMALL KNOB will allow you to change values in the field... Once your value is correct - the "ENT" key will insert the value and move you to the next field... When done - you can press the RIGHT KNOB BUTTON to deactivate your cursor... Press the MENU button to activate your flight plan... Press the FLIGHT PLAN button again to go back to navigation...Regards,Scott

dont know what videos you watching but there is HUGE difference between the actual 530 and what carenado put in here. If you want anything realistically you need to go to RXP 530. The 530 that is in the 210 actually is a very old version comming from Fs9 days (pre 2004). though it is sort of OK gps it is FAR away from portraying anything close to the actual real live 530, so I would not try and replicate what I see in real life videos unless you watch videos specific to this GPS. then I just can also point to getting the version with corrected clickspots because the one coming with 210 will drive you up the walls..about tutorial for this 530.. sorry there has never been any proper tutorial for this from the day this original GPS was first released.if you want real life tutorial.. google is your friend and Garmin site have lots of download-able PDF's

I watched a few on how to enter a flight plan and get stuck immediately.

I've barely touched the default GPS, as I installed the Reality XP unit almost as soon as I bought the 210 but, if memory serves, you can't enter flight plans directly into the unit or change them on the fly (pun intended). To get a flight plan in, you'll need to do an FSX flight plan and it'll show up loaded in when you start your flight.If you DO want the unit to behave like the real thing, the Reality XP gauge is the way to go. I love mine (once I got past some initial learning curve issues), though I do sometimes wish that I COULD auto-load a FP.Scott

Yeah - LOL - sometimes you really don't feel like entering ALL the waypoints... In real life - you can take the data card out to preload flight plans... Another real life innovation - that looked pretty neat - a voice recognition module... You just speak the waypoints and it inserts them without all the knob spinning... It even recognizes airways and automatically inserts ALL the associated waypoints... I haven't heard any feedback - but - it looked pretty sharp...Regards,Scott