BendixKing KMD 540 Quick Reference Guide

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B

KMD 550/850 Multi-Function Display

Quick Reference

For Software Version 02/02 and Later

N

1. Brightness Control

2. Data Card

3. Display

4. Available Functions Legend

5. On/Off Control

6. Selected Function Indicators

7. Function Select Keys

8. Control Knobs (Inner and
Outer Knob)

9. Power Labels

10. Soft Labels

11. Joystick

12. Power Keys

13. Fault Indicator

FUNCTION SELECT KEYS

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1

2

3

10

4

6

11

13

F

9

5

Topo On

Map

Topo Off

Map

WX Radar*

Stormscope

Datalink Wx

Graphical

Products

Datalink Wx

FIS Textual

Textual

Products
Products

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EGPWSTAS/TCAS

Setup Pages

External

NTSC Video

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AVAILABLE FUNCTIONS ICONS

Icon

Description

Flight plan information being received and displayed.

Flight plan information being received but not displayed.

Stormscope®info being received and displayed.

Stormscope®info being received and displayed. Strikes have occurred within 25 nm.

Stormscope®info being received but not displayed.

Stormscope®info being received but not displayed. Strikes have occurred within 25 nm.

Stormscope®info not being received / data invalid.

Standby weather radar being displayed.

Active weather radar being displayed.

Weather radar in standby mode, not being displayed.

Weather radar in active mode, not being displayed.

Weather radar data invalid / not being received. Previously in standby.

Weather radar data invalid / not being received. Previously active.

Standby traffic sensor being displayed.

Active traffic information being displayed.

Traffic sensor in standby mode, not being displayed.

TIS service not available.

Traffic sensor active, not being displayed.

Traffic sensor data invalid / not being displayed.

EGPWS with warnings are enabled, being displayed.

EGPWS with warnings are disabled, being displayed.

EGPWS with warnings are enabled, not being displayed.

EGPWS with warnings are disabled, not being displayed.

EGPWS data invalid / not being received.

Severe Weather Storm track information being received and displayed.

Severe Weather Storm track information being received but not displayed.

Severe Weather Storm track information not being received / data invalid.

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VDL XM

Description

No Wx data is currently being received but previously received data is being displayed.

Wx data is currently being received from a signal and displayed. XM signal is weak.

Wx data is currently being received from a signal and displayed. XM signal is marginal.

Wx data is currently being received from a signal and displayed. XM signal is good.

Wx data not being received nor displayed on present page.

Wx data is currently being received from a signal but not displayed on present page.

Fault with connection or data link radio.

Graphical METAR overlay is available but not displayed.

Graphical METAR overlay is enabled and displayed.

Wx data not being received. Graphical METAR overlay is available but not displayed.

Wx data not being received. Graphical METAR overlay is enabled and displayed.

Radio Fault. Graphical METAR overlay is available but not displayed.

Radio Fault. Graphical METAR overlay is enabled and displayed.

TFR data is not being received.

TFR data is being received but is not currently being displayed.

TFR data is being received and displayed.

Icon Description

0 min – 15 min Datalink lightning information received and displayed.

0 min – 15 min Datalink lightning Information received but not displayed.

15 min – 30 min Datalink lightning information received and displayed but data is more than

15 minutes old.

15 min – 30 min Datalink lightning information received but not displayed and data is more than

15 minutes old.

Unavailable Datalink lightning is not being received.

N/A No TFR

Icon
present.

N/A

N/A

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INTERACTION OF CONTROLS

AUX

Not

Active

Soft Key

Soft Key

Soft Key

Soft Key

Soft Key

Not

Active

Not

Active

* Not available in all configurations

TERR

Not Active

Selects Terrain

Warnings

Inhibited

* or

Enabled*.Active

Active

Sequence

through 120

˚ and

360

˚ views

(Default = 360

˚).

Active when over-

lays available.

Brings up overlay

select

Soft Keys.

Rotate to select

Tst, Nrm, Set

(Default = Nrm).

Not Active

TRFC

Not Active

Sequence through

Relative and

Absolute modes.

Active

Active

Sequence through

Normal, Above

and Below views.

Active when over-

lays available.

Brings up overlay

select

Soft Keys.

Rotate to select

Sby, Tst, On, Off.

Rotate to select

Mute On, Mute

Off.

WX - VDL/XM

Used to point at

items on map.

Displays SELECT

FIS PRODUCT

Menu.

Active

Active

Not Active

Active when overlays

available. Brings up

overlay select

Soft

Keys.

Rotate to select

report identifier. Also,

sequences Graphical

Weather Pages.

Rotate to select

report identifier. Also,

sequences Graphical

Weather Pages.

WX - Stormscope

®

Clears Strikes

Sequence through

Cell and Strike

modes.

Active

Active

Sequence through

120

˚ and 360˚

views.

Active when over-

lays available.

Brings up overlay

select

Soft Keys.

Not Active

Not Active

WX - Radar

Controls Tilt and

Track Line.

Sequence through

WX, WX/ARL*and GND

Mapping modes.

Active

Active

Sequence through

Horizontal and

Vertical Profile

*

views.

Active when over-

lays available.

Brings up overlay

select

Soft Keys.

Rotate to select

Sby, Tst, On, Set

(Default = Sby).

Gain control*

MAP

Used to point at any item on

map.

Soft Key

labeled RESET

STICK when joystick is

active.

Active

Active

Soft Key

labeled MORE

INFO when joystick is active

to get more info about items

pointed to on the map.

Active when overlays avail-

able. Brings up overlay

select

Soft Keys.

Rotate to bring up Airport

More Info page and select

the airport identifier.

Rotate to bring up Airport

More Info page and select

the airport identifier.

JOYSTICK

MODE

RNG

RNG

VIEW

OVLY

OUTER

KNOB

INNER

KNOB

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MAP FUNCTION

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15

14

13 12

11

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10

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1

6

2 5

1 Display Range - RNG:####nm
2 Current Track - TRK:###
3 Current Ground Speed - GS:###kt
4 Distance to Pointer - PDIS: ###.#nm
5 Position Readout - Current aircraft position
6 Control Knob Label - Indicates Control Knob is active for data entry
7 Bearing to Pointer - PBRG: ###
8 MORE INFO Soft Label
9 Range Rings - Outer ring radius is selected range, inner ring radius is

one half the selected range

10 RESET STICK Soft Label
11 Joystick Label
12 Lightning Overlay
13 Desired Track - Active leg oriented to magnetic desired track (magenta)
14 GPS Flight Plan Overlay - Current GPS flight plan
15 Aircraft Symbol - Indicates present position. Stylized airplane when

heading input is present, a plus symbol with no heading.

16 Distance to Waypoint - DIS:###.#nm
17 North Pointer
18 Available Functions - Displays icons representing data available (black)

and displayed (color)

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MAP ICONS

Feature Conditions Map Icons Other Characteristics

TOPO on TOPO off

Political
Boundary

Not displayed

Railway Not displayed

Roads Major Not displayed

Prime Not displayed

Other Not displayed

Victor
Airways

Heliroutes

Airspace
Boundary

FIR/UIR Boundary label will be FIR,

UIR, or F/U per airspace
type.

Class A/B/C Boundary label will be A, B,

or C per airspace type.

Class D/E/F/G Boundary label will be D, E,

F or G per airspace type.

Class Unknown

Danger Boundary label will be DGR.

Restricted Boundary label will be RES.

Prohibited Boundary label will be PHB.

MOA/MATZ Boundary label will be MOA

or MATZ per airspace type.
Other SUA (Radar
Area, Alert, Caution,
Training, Warning or
Unspecified/
Unknown)

Boundary label will be ALT,

CTN, DGR, MOA, PHB,

RES, TNG, WNG, ADV,

CBA, TRA, TSA, or UNK.

Cities Not displayed

Intersections
(INTs)

Obstacles Lighted - Tall Label will indicate MSL ele-

vation followed by AGL ele-

vation in parentheses [e.g.

“1546 (590)”]. Tall is defined

as over 1,000 ft. AGL.

Lighted - Short

Unlighted - Tall

Unlighted - Short

NDBs

Temporary Flight
Restrictions

Boundary label will be TFR.

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OVERLAYING DATA

OVERLAY TYPE

MMOODDEE FFLLIIGGHHTT PPLLAANN SSTTOORRMMSSCCOOPPEE®®TTRRAAFFFFIICC MMEETTAARR DDAATTAA LLIINNKK SSCCIITT TTFFRR

LLIIGGHHTTNNIINNGG

MAP - TOPO ON Yes Yes

1

Yes

2

Yes No No Yes

5

MAP - TOPO OFF Yes Yes

1

Yes

2

Yes No No Yes

5

WX - Weather Radar Yes

1

Yes Yes

3

No No No No

WX - Stormscope

®

Yes

1

N/A No No No No No

WX - NEXRAD Yes Yes

1

Yes No Yes Yes No

WX - Precipitation Type

5

Yes No No No Yes Yes No

WX - Freezing Levels

5

Yes No No No No No No

WX - Winds Aloft

5

Yes No No No No No No
WX - Graphical METAR Yes No No N/A No No No
WX - Graphical AIRMET Yes Yes

1

No No No No No

WX - Graphical SIGMET Yes Yes

1

No No No No No

WX - Graphical Convective Yes Yes

1

No No No No No

SIGMET
WX - Graphical Wx Watches Yes

4

Yes

1, 4

No No No No No

TERR Yes Yes

1

Yes

2

No No No No

TRFC Yes

1

No N/A No No No No

1 Requires remote heading input 3 TIS requires remote heading input 5 Not available with VHF
2 TCAS/TAS requires remote heading input 4 Not available with XM Datalink FIS

Feature Conditions Map Icons Other Characteristics

TOPO on TOPO off

VORs With DME

Without DME

Airports Hard runway +

IFR approach

Line rep­resents

primary runway

Line rep­resents

primary runway

If the database does not
have runways for the air­port, then the icon will not
indicate a runway (no line
will be displayed).

Hard runway, no
IFR approach

Line rep­resents

primary runway

Line rep­resents

primary runway

IFR approach
available

Line rep­resents

primary runway

Line rep­resents

primary runway

Soft or unknown
runways

Line rep­resents

primary runway

Line rep­resents

primary runway

Airport
Runways

Primary, hard
surface

Runways are shown for
airports within 5 nm of
current position and
selected range is 10 nm
or less. Runway ends are
labeled with the proper
runway identifier if
selected range is 1 nm.

Other hard sur­face

Primary soft sur­face

Other soft sur­face

Helipads

VRPs Not displayed

WEATHER RADAR

AVAILABLE WEATHER RADAR FUNCTION ICONS

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Icon Description

Standby weather radar being displayed.

Active weather radar being displayed.

Weather radar in standby mode, not being displayed.

Weather radar in active mode, not being displayed.

Weather radar data invalid / not being received. Previously in standby.

Weather radar data invalid / not being received. Previously active.

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4

3

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1 Aircraft Symbol
2 Knob Function Label - Rotating the outer knob selects between

Standby (SBY), Test (TST), ON and SET modes.

3 Display Range Indications
4 Tilt Angle - XX.X Degrees up (U) or down (D).
5 Joystick Function Label - Moving the joystick up and down adjusts

the radar tilt. Moving the joystick left and right adjusts the location of
the yellow track line.

6 Stabilization Indication
7 Track Angle
8 WX Radar Mode Indication - TEST, WX, WX/ARL (Auto Range Limiting

or MAP (Ground Mapping Mode)

9 Available Functions - Displays icons representing data available

(black) and displayed (color)

10 Fault Message Window - See Error and Fault Messages

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STORMSCOPE

AVAILABLE STORMSCOPE FUNCTION ICONS

LIGHTNING ICONS

WX-500

WX-1000E

Icon Description

Stormscope®information being received and displayed.

Stormscope®information being received and displayed. Strikes have occurred within
25 nm.

Stormscope®information being received but not displayed.

Stormscope®information being received but not displayed. Strikes have occurred
within 25 nm.

Stormscope®information not being received / data invalid.

Lightning

Icon

Color Used on Pages Additional Requirements

White MAP (TOPO-ON or

TOPO-OFF)

The small solid icon is used when
the display selected range is 25 nm
or greater.

White WX, TRFC, TERR

White
Outline

MAP (TOPO-ON or
TOPO-OFF)

The large outlined icon is used when
the display selected range is less
than 25 nm.

White
Outline

WX, TRFC, TERR

Lightning

Icon

Intensity

Level

Color Used on

Pages

Comments

1 (Light) White

with
black
border

MAP,
WX,
TERR

The small solid icon is used when the dis­play selected range is 25 nm or greater.

The WX-1000E indicates areas of lightning
detected (not individual discharges). Light
activity (level 1) is an area with up to 8
strikes/minute; moderate (level 2) is an area
with 9-25 strikes/minute and heavy (level 3)
is an area with 26 or more strikes/minute.

2 (Moderate)

3 (Heavy)

1 (Light) White

with
black
border

MAP,
WX,
TERR

The large outlined icon is used when the
display selected range is less than 25 nm.

The larger icon reminds the user that the
accuracy of lightning placement is not as
good as that suggested by the map scale.

2 (Moderate)

3 (Heavy)

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FIS VDL AND XM

DATALINK WEATHER

☞

No AWWs for XM

No AWWs for XM

** NEXRAD Composite with XM

NEXRAD Base with VDL

** NEXRAD Composite with XM

NEXRAD Base with VDL

☞

☞

☞

☞

☞

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SUBSCRIBING TO VDL SERVICES

NOTE: The following details require selection of a KDR-510 as the source
for datalink weather data.

SETTING UP A VDL SUBSCRIPTION

Get Display ID

from unit in airplane

Select the desired

services

Update Data Card if needed.

Update at least once per year

to ensure continued FIS Services

Go to Bendixking.com

or call 1-800-247-0230

to subscribe to FIS Services

Receive Subscription

Code(s) and print them

out

Enjoy flying with FIS
Services!

Enter Display ID during

registration

(This is only required first

time you subscribe)

Take printed out code(s)
to the airplane and enter

code(s) on the FIS Subscription

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