Excessive rate of descent alerting and warning – BendixKing KMH 920 System KMH 980 User Manual

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EGPWS Functions and Features

Rev 2

KTA 970/KMH 980 Pilot’s Guide

006-18273-0000

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The following figure is a graphical representation of the Runway Field
Clearance Floor in both Class B and Class C configurations.

Runway Field Clearance Floor (RFCF)

EXCESSIVE RATE OF DESCENT ALERTING AND
WARNING

The GA-EGPWS uses both GPS Vertical Velocity and pressure altitude
to compute vertical velocity information when the aircraft does not pro-
vide specific air data for this purpose. In either case, when the aircraft is
descending toward terrain at a high rate for its relative altitude above ter-
rain, the system will provide alerting and warning to the pilot. This func-
tion is always active.

The following graph represents the envelope of protection provided for
Excessive Rate of Descent scenarios:

Excessive Descent Rate

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