Originally Posted by
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It was a Saab 340 so I don't think they have a magenta line. Might be wrong because maybe they've added something but my experience is the 340s and E120s of the world are strictly VORs and heading bugs.
From the looks of it there is nothing there to make a magenta line...
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../4/1102486.jpg
The only magenta lines available in the Saabs I used to fly were DME defined radials on a Plan view. When you tuned in a station it would pop up on the plan view and the radial would change when rotating the course selector.
Actually came in pretty helpful when you had more than one DME. Not a moving map by any means, but nice to be able to see the intersection cross radials.
There were one or two guys who swore they could navigate direct to a fix and would try it on occasion, somehow ATC was never amused as the accuracy left much to be desired.