Moving Map & Charts

The map page and the chart products behind it.

The Map page

Zoom with the range keys, the knob, or a pinch, from 800 nm down to 200 ft. The range readout describes the on-map range bar. At 0.8 nm and below the map draws an airport diagram with taxiway and runway labels. It uses the FAA diagram where that diagram has a georeference (data that ties it to map coordinates). The round North button on the Map and Terrain pages toggles between north up and your Orientation setting.

Press MENU for the Map Options popup. The left side toggles layers in place: terrain shading, topo shading, weather, traffic, profile view. The Map Detail picker steps through four quick-declutter levels. The right side jumps to Map Setup, graphical flight plan editing, the weather legend, and distance measuring.

The map draws in a VFR or IFR presentation. IFR switches to a white background with black airways and boxed idents, the way an enroute chart reads. Day/night color modes for map and charts live in Setup → Display. You can set each to Day, Night, or Auto by the sun at your position.

Overlays

• Airways — low, high, or both. Airway waypoints stay visible while airways are shown. Touching an airway opens a review page listing its segment.
• Airspace — includes Smart Airspace (off by default, VFR map only), which bolds the airspace that applies at your current altitude and dims the rest. Altitude labels (ceiling over floor) appear at your chosen range.
• TFRs — outlines of temporary flight restrictions from live FAA data.
• Obstacles — with red/yellow threat coloring by relative altitude and MSL/AGL labels.
• Weather — NEXRAD precipitation (US weather radar) and METAR flags from live real-world data.
• Traffic, runway extensions, and proximity-waypoint rings.

Range rings that answer questions

• Fuel-range ring — two rings, reserve and empty, computed from the fuel totalizer (the E3X’s running fuel count) and displaced by the wind.
• Glide ring — your power-off glide footprint from the airframe’s glide numbers and the wind. It follows the terrain contours, so it pulls in behind a ridge. It needs an outside air temperature and fades in as you climb through 500 ft AGL.
• Selected-altitude intercept arc — the banana bar: where you will reach the selected altitude at the current vertical speed.

Pan and measure

Drag to pan. Your aircraft keeps flying while the map holds your point. BACK, the re-center button, or a press of the small right knob snaps home. Measure Distance (from Map Options) drops a pin and reads bearing and distance to anything you touch. Set Ref re-bases the pin so you can walk legs across the map.

Touching the selection band opens a detail window for your selection. That can be an airport, airspace, obstacle, TFR text, or a raw map position you can save as a user waypoint.

Auto-zoom

With a waypoint active, the map picks the range that keeps it clearly in view. Change range by hand and auto-zoom stands down. It resumes when the active waypoint changes, you take off, or an alert needs your attention. Landing at your destination zooms to the airport diagram range automatically.

Profile view

Map Options → Profile View adds the forward terrain profile strip below the map. This is the Terrain page’s cross-section of what is ahead of you, without leaving the map.

Map Setup

Main Menu → Setup → Map (or Set Up Map… from Map Options) is the deep configuration window. It has a live preview map on top and twelve tabs (General, Map, Line, Traffic, Airport, Navaid, Airspace, and more). They control per-feature visibility and ranges. Some rows gray out, or save without yet affecting the map. Its MENU offers single-item, per-category, and restore-all defaults.

En Route Charts

The Charts page is a moving map whose basemap is the FAA raster chart: georeferenced VFR sectional, IFR low, or IFR high. Your ownship, route, and traffic draw directly on it. If a chart product is not in your installed data pack, the page says so plainly rather than silently swapping products. That includes the Chart Type picker’s Helicopter option, since the data packs do not carry those charts yet. Orientation can follow your map settings or stay north-up.

Plates, diagrams, and the Chart Supplement

FAA publications live on the Waypoint page’s Charts tab: current-cycle approach plates (APR), departures (DP), arrivals (STAR), and info documents. Info documents are airport diagrams and the Chart Supplement entry. The tab is one tap from the airport’s waypoint page. The first plate selects automatically (or, once you load an approach, that approach’s plate), and the maximize button expands the viewer to full screen.