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Rev 6 Jun/2004 KMD 550/850 Pilot's Guide
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Operation
AIRSPACE INTERROGATION
In order to interrogate a piece of airspace on the Map display, move the
joystick operated pointer and point at one of the airspace boundaries.
After releasing the joystick, the software will search the airspace data-
base and after a short time will re-draw the piece of airspace to which
you have pointed in a bolder line with a basic information tag attached.
IMPORTANT:
When a single airspace boundary line is shared by two different
pieces of airspace (which is very common), the airspace with the
lower vertical limit will always be highlighted.
Once it is determined the
piece of airspace highlighted
is the piece for which infor-
mation is wanted (you may
have to zoom out to verify
this, but beware, some air-
space switches off as you
zoom out dependent on the
settings made in Map Setup),
press MORE INFO and addi-
tional information will be dis-
played as in Figure 18.
The information shown on
this display is all the informa-
tion from the internal Jeppesen database that is relevant to the airspace
selected. If some of the fields are blank or say SEE CHART, this means
that Jeppesen data is not available for that particular item.
DISPLAY FLIGHT PLAN DATA
If the host GPS is outputting data in the Bendix/King equivalent ARNAV
R-30 (RS232) data sentence format, in LEG mode, the active flight plan
will be sent to the KMD 550/850 and can be displayed as an overlay on
the map (see Overlaying Data). An exception to this is during the curved
flight segments of approaches (i.e. DME arcs, procedural turns and
holds) when most GPS units stop outputting flight plan data but continue
to output positional data. During a DME arc or procedural turn, the KMD
550/850 will continue to show position, track and ground speed but the
curved line depicting the arc or turn will not be displayed. In OBS mode,
some GPS units will not be able to provide flight plan data. Present posi-
tion is still provided and flight plans will be displayed as soon as the
mode is returned to LEG.
Figure 18
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