BendixKing KMD 150 - Pilots Guide User Manual

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Rev 4 Apr/2005

KMD 150 Pilot's Guide

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The cursor can then be moved to the right to adjust the minutes to one of
two values, 00 or 30. Only after pressing Key 1 SET is the information
saved and the display reverts to Screen 3, GPS Status Screen.

The local offset is held in RAM and added to UTC time when calculating
ETA's. Default value is +00:00. It is important to set local offset correctly
to ensure ETA's given in NAV Mode are correct.

SETTING PRESENT POSITION

Pressing GPS STATUS
in Main Menu, followed
by SET POSN, accesses
this Screen. The SET
POSN key will not be
available if the GPS has
acquired a position fix.
On entry to this Screen a
cursor is positioned over
the first character of the
latitude as shown here.
The joystick can then be
used to increment or
decrement values and to
move the cursor right and
left.

When new values for lati-
tude and longitude have
been selected, pressing
Key 1 SET will enter the
new latitude and longi-
tude and revert to Screen
3.

Alternatively you can
press Key 4 VIEW MAP
and using the joystick,
simply point at your pre-
sent position.

When Screen 10A is dis-
played you can zoom in or out using Keys 2 or 3. By using the joystick
you can 'bump' the borders of the map window to view anywhere in the
world. The POS: box at the bottom of the screen displays the latitude
and longitude of the pointer.

Once you have the joystick pointing at your present location, press Key 5
SET POSN to return to Screen 3, where the pointer latitude and longi-

GPS Status Screens

Screen 6: Present Position Setup Screen

Screen 10A: View Map Screen

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