drambuster,
Thanks for your post - I've been trying everything to get the VNAV to work for approaches.
Katana,
I wasn’t able to reproduce this problem.
To make a route (if not using airports and nav aids) I first start with inputting the User waypoints. Start with the main menu “Points” then User and “Create Waypoint”; move to Map page, using pointer to highland city press “Enter” and “Save”. It works on my 296.
Not sure about the wisdom of using large cities as waypoints, sounds more like “Target for Tonight”. I prefer nav aids, identified reporting points (e.g. from IFR chart) – makes it easier for position reporting, or terrain features such as bridges, river, railway, motorway, etc. Of course, one could Project a user waypoint say 5 miles west from a city then report e.g. “Passing west abeam [city]”.