Section 4, Advanced gps operation, Creating and modifying flight plans – Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems Bendix/King Global Positioning System KLN 35A User Manual
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KLN 35A Pilot’s Guide
Advanced GPS Operation
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Effective Date 3/96
006-08791-0000 Rev 1
Advanced GPS Operation
Chapter 4
4. ADVANCED GPS OPERATION
4.1. CREATING AND MODIFYING FLIGHT PLANS
The following rules and considerations apply to KLN 35A flight plans:
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The KLN 35A is capable of storing in its memory nine flight plans
plus an active flight plan.
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Each of the flight plans may contain up to 20 waypoints. The
waypoints may consist of any combination of published
waypoints from the data base or user created waypoints.
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The flight plans are numbered 0 through 9 (FPL 0, FPL 1, FPL 2,
. . . , FPL 9).
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The active flight plan is always FPL 0. The standard procedure
is to create a flight plan in one of the flight plans numbered as
FPL 1, FPL 2, etc. When one of these numbered flight plans is
activated, it becomes FPL 0, the active flight plan. This Pilot’s
guide will refer to FPL 0 as the “active flight plan” and FPL 1
through FPL 9 as the “numbered flight plans.” If desired, a flight
plan can be created directly in the active flight plan. This avoids
creating the flight plan in a numbered flight plan and then having
to activate it. The disadvantage is that if a numbered flight plan
is subsequently made active, the one programmed directly into
FPL 0 will be lost.
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Modifications may be made to FPL 0 without affecting the way it
is stored as a numbered flight plan.
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Unless Direct To operation is being used, the active flight plan
(FPL 0) must contain at least two waypoints. Otherwise, the KLN
35A navigation system will be flagged.
4.1.1. CREATING A FLIGHT PLAN
A flight plan for a flight from Lakefront airport in New Orleans, LA. to
St. Petersburg/Clearwater, FL. International airport will be used as an
example of how to create a flight plan. The waypoints making up the
flight plan are: KNEW (Lakefront airport), GPT (Gulfport VOR), SJI
(Semmes VOR), CEW (Crestview VOR), MAI (Marianna VOR), TLH
(Tallahassee VOR), CTY (Cross City VOR), and KPIE
(St. Petersburg/Clearwater International airport).