BendixKing KMD 540 - Addendum System KMD 850 User Manual

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Revision 6 Feb/2009

KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum

Normal Operation

GRAPHICAL AIRMETS PAGE

The following illustration describes the Graphical AIRMETs display. The
only difference between VDL and XM is the Datalink Wx Status icon.

1 Range Scale - Indicates selected range.
2 Available Functions - Displays icons representing data available (black)

and displayed (color).

3 North Pointer - Indicates north.
4 MODE - Indicates the weather product being displayed.
5 Control Knob Icon - Displayed when the Control Knobs are available for

cycling through the graphical weather products.

6 Joystick Label - Indicates joystick is active and can be used to pan map.
7 Range Rings - Outer ring radius is selected range and inner ring radius

is one half the selected range.

8 Aircraft Symbol - Indicates present aircraft position and heading (if

available) or track.

9 AIRMET Boundary - Color coded line indicating the boundaries of an

AIRMET.

10 AIRMET Color Key - Colors indicating AIRMET type.
11 IN - Indicates the current aircraft position is ìIN ” an IFR AIRMET.

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