BendixKing KMD 540 - Addendum System KMD 850 - Manual (Page 65)

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Revision 6 Feb/2009 KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
Normal Operation
3. To view a specific
AIRMET, move the joystick in
the desired direction and
place the pointer on the
desired AIRMET border (see
Figure 57). A box will pop up
containing the AIRMET des-
ignator, TYPE and the AGE
of the report.
4. Press the RNG
▲ ▲//RNG▼ ▼
keys to zoom in or out on the
pointer position.
5. Press the MORE INFO
Softkey to display the Text
AIRMET Page for the dis-
played location as in Figure
58. The text describing
AIRMET location is displayed
in green to help differentiate
between location information
and weather information.
When the text report is
accessed from the map, the
text will automatically be
scrolled to the beginning of
the weather information.
Some report identifiers may
be highlighted in green
(CHIZ02
and SLCZ01).
These are AIRMET reports
that contain insufficient loca-
tion information to be dis-
played on the AIRMET Map.
6. Press the AIRMET MAP
Softkey to return to the pre-
vious display.
7. Press the RESET STICK
Softkey to return to the pre-
sent position display. If no actions are taken for a period of 30 seconds,
the display will return to the aircraft present position display.
8. To view the graphical AIRMET LEGEND, move the joystick pointer to
an empty area on the map and press the MORE INFO softkey. The
legend will be displayed as in Figure 59. Move the joystick to remove the
legend from the display.
Figure 59
Figure 58
Figure 57