Stop using the direct-to navigation for VFR flight I mean it. Don't use it. At all. Instead hit FLT PLAN and enter destination airport into flight plan. Why? Notice that your current airport is already entered as first waypoint in the default flight plan when you power-on the 430. Direct-to will remove this. It's advantageous to keep this in place. Direct-to does not add destination airport to flight plan , only to "active waypoint" (top right corner of flight plan page). You want to see it in flight plan itself. Why? Because if you ever add a waypoint (like a VOR) to the flight plan while en route on a "direct to" flight, that fix becomes the new destination and it wipes out your destination airport. So you scramble to re-enter the dest airport as final waypoint. Lots of unnecessary button pushing. We're pilots, not accountants. Bonus - if you're doing local pattern practice, your airport is already in the flight plan! Just "d...
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