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Section 2
FIS Operation
Rev 4 Aug/2007
KMD 250 Pilot's Guide
FIS TEXTUAL WEATHER PRODUCTS
The following illustration describes the FIS Textual Products display. The
only difference between VDL and XM is the FIS function status icon.
Normal Operation
1 Report Range - RNG:####. Pressing the RNG▲/RNG▼ Key will change the
distance radius from the selected FILTER AREA in which available reports will
be listed. In this case all available METARs with a 50 mile radius of KJHW
will be listed in the AVAILABLE METARS field.
2 Function Status Icons - Displays icons representing data available (black)
and displayed (color).
3 Selected Report Info - Displays identifier, name, city and state of selected
report. This field is only display
ed for METARs, TAFs and PIREPs when available.
4 Available Reports - Shows available reports based on the selection
in the FILTER AREA field. Special, urgent or amended reports are
highlighted in yellow. Horizontal movement of the joystick will move the
cursor over the next report in the field. The presence of a scroll bar
indicates more reports are available, but not displayed.
5 Filter Area Selection - Pressing the CHANGE AREA Softkey cycles
between Destination, Flightplan WPT, Nearest and User Defined.
6 Knob Active - When displayed, the Rotary Knob can be used to select
an identifier from the database or Flightplan. This is only available when
User Defined or FPL WPT is selected.
7 Selected Identifier - Indicates the currently selected identifier.
8 UTC - Current UTC time.
9 METAR MAP Softlabel - In this case, when this key is pressed the graphical
METAR page is displayed with the map centered on the selected METAR.
This softkey corresponds to the currently selected textual product, i.e
METAR MAP. This is only available when valid data is being received.
10 Change Area Softlabel - Cycles the FILTER AREA field between
Destination, Flightplan Waypoint (FPL WPT), Nearest and User Defined.
11 Text Field - The encoded weather report is displayed in this field.
12 CHOOSE PRODUCT Softlabel - Pressing this softkey will display the
SELECT WX PRODUCT window. Use the Rotary Knob or Joystick to
highlight the desired product and press SELECT.
13 Current Selected - Indicates the currently selected weather product.
14 Age of Report- Age of report based on UTC time minus time of report.
The colored bar indicates percentage of age versus elapsed time before
ex
piration. The bar will be green the first 50% then turn yellow.
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