BendixKing KMD 540 - Addendum System KMD 850 - Manual (Page 71)

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Revision 6 Feb/2009 KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
Normal Operation
GRAPHICAL CONVECTIVE SIGMETS PAGE
The following illustration describes the Graphical Convective SIGMETs
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 Convective SIGMET Boundary - Color coded line indicating the boundaries
of a Convective SIGMET.
10 IN - Indicates the current aircraft position is “IN” a thunderstorm Convective
SIGMET.
11 Convective SIGMET Color Key - Colors indicating Convective SIGMET
type.
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