BendixKing KMD 540 - Addendum System KMD 850 - Manual (Page 19)

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Revision 6 Feb/2009 KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
BASIC SERVICE WEATHER PRODUCTS
The following is a discussion of weather products offered with the basic
no-fee VDL service. Accessing and navigating these services will be dis-
cussed in detail later in this addendum.
All basic and value-added products (except those identified as VDL Only)
can also be obtained through a single fee-based XM subscription service.
METAR
A METAR (Aviation Routine Weather Report) describes the specific
weather conditions at a particular airport at a given time. The KMD 550
provides a translated version of the METAR data. This is a readable ver-
sion of the METAR data derived from the actual METAR. The raw
METAR data is played at the end of the translated version. The ele-
ments of a METAR are in order as follows:
1.
Type of report
Basic Service Weather Products
Icon Description
Severe Weather Storm track information being received and displayed.
Severe Weather Storm track information being received but not dis-
played.
Severe Weather Storm track information not being received / data invalid.
VDL Icon XM Icon Colors Description
TFR data is not being received.
Black on gray. TFR data is being received but is not cur-
rently being displayed.
Black on cyan. TFR data is being received and displayed.
N/A No TFR Icon
present.
N/A
N/A
Icon Description
0 min – 15 min Datalink lightning information received and displayed.
0 min – 15 min Datalink lightning information received but not dis-
played.
15 min – 30 min Datalink lightning information received and displayed
but data is more than 15 minutes old.
15 min – 30 min Datalink lightning information received but not dis-
played and data is more than 15 minutes old.
> 30 min Datalink lightning is not being received.