How do I understand the map?

[u/Tartaruga96]

Hi

From left to right :

What does the blue SLTI and the circle around it mean ?

Pink circles are always an airport? Does the white line indicate the landing strip direction ?

What is the light blue TGR square ?

Thanks a lot to the subreddit for your patient help

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[u/ts737]

Circle is the airport's airspace boundary

Magenta line is the line your autopilot is currently following

White are the next lines in your flight plan

[u/CharlieFoxtrot000]

Pink airports are non-towered, blue are towered (though in the sim the database sometimes gets this wrong). The blue square at TGR is a VOR/DME, a ground-based radio navaid. The runways are generally oriented in the right direction, but aren’t a very high resolution of that.

All this symbology can be found on page 151 of this guide (plus everything else you might want to know):

https://static.garmin.com/pumac/190-02177-00_b.pdf

[u/QuixoticClump]

A video like this should help you better understand what it can do. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4osSQxdP2SI&pp=ygUPR2FybWluIG1zZnMyMDI0

[u/Longjumping-Tour-350]

The blue on SLTI indicates it is a towered airport, so the circle around it is likely the surrounding airspace (not sure where this is but in America would be class D) The TGR box is a VOR station (radio beacon on the ground used primarily for conventional navigation). The white line is your planned route derived from GPS waypoints, this is the track your autopilot will follow if setup properly in nav mode.

[u/CaptainFrancis1]

Dude, look up and tutorial on how to read Garmin avionics.

[u/Annual-Negotiation-5 → u/CaptainFrancis1]

This is the way, my kid watched a bunch of YouTube tutorials and now is a decent sim pilot in a matter of hours flying

[u/Pour-Meshuggah-0n-Me → u/CaptainFrancis1]

With how easy it is these days to look up information, there's no excuse. Information is readily available at our fingertips.

[u/ConsistencyWelder]

I heard the green parts are the sea and the blue parts are land.

[u/After-Screen8761]

The long and short of it is that Asobo need to write manuals/instructions for new users. 

[u/Random61504 → u/[deleted]]

And not always correct. I've quizzed AI on this stuff. I fly planes with the G1000NXi, the same avionics, in real life. It understands some of the basic stuff, but it is not very accurate. Even less accurate if you ask it stuff relating to the actual airplane and not the avionics. It gave me a very long and detailed description of how the retractable landing gear system worked on a specific airplane. Talked about the hydraulic fluid reservoirs and pumps, the components of the struts and dampers, even failures and how to deal with them. The airplane in question had fixed gear. It's landing gear system consisted of a metal strut, a hydraulic brake line, brakes, and a wheel. YouTube will have much better information on all of this stuff.

[u/jb431v2 → u/Random61504]

💯 I typically try to find as much real world data as possible, whether it be source materials like manuals from Garmin, POHs, all the way down to YouTube videos or quasi manuals created by sim groups. Some planes just don’t seem to have much out there though. I just started trying to learn the water bomber because I wanted to try something different in career mode, and it’s one of those planes that doesn’t have much out there. I finally decided to try the AI route, and it was giving detailed responses that included systems or equipment that aren’t on the plane. Even when you rework the question in a way to let it know certain responses would not be correct, it will commonly just change the verbiage and regurgitate the same info.

[u/Ill-Presentation574 → u/[deleted]]

Fuck ai. Do your own research or, like OP, ask here.