BendixKing KMD 540 Quick Reference Guide

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KMD 550/850 Multi-Function Display

Quick Reference

For Software Version 02/02 and Later

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1.	Brightness Control	8.	Control Knobs (Inner and
2.	Data Card		Outer Knob)
3.	Display	9.	Power Labels
4.	Available Functions Legend	10. Soft Labels
5.	On/Off Control	11.	Joystick
6.	Selected Function Indicators	12. Power Keys
7.	Function Select Keys	13.	Fault Indicator

FUNCTION SELECT KEYS

Topo On

Map

Topo Off

Map

WX Radar*

Stormscope

Datalink Wx

Graphical

Products

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Products

TAS/TCAS		EGPWS		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.
N/A	No TFR		TFR data is not being received.
	Icon
	present.
N/A			TFR data is being received but is not currently being displayed.
N/A			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.

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					MAP	WX - Radar	WX - Stormscope®	WX - VDL/XM	TRFC	TERR	AUX
JOYSTICK					Used to point at any item on	Controls Tilt and	Clears Strikes	Used to point at	Not Active	Not Active	Not
					map.	Track Line.		items on map.			Active
MODE					Soft Key labeled RESET	Sequence through	Sequence through	Displays SELECT	Sequence through	Selects Terrain	Soft Key
					STICK when joystick is	WX, WX/ARL*	Cell and Strike	FIS PRODUCT	Relative and	Warnings
					active.	and GND	modes.	Menu.	Absolute modes.	Inhibited* or
						Mapping modes.				Enabled*.
RNG					Active	Active	Active	Active	Active	Active	Soft Key
RNG					Active	Active	Active	Active	Active	Active	Soft Key
VIEW					Soft Key labeled MORE	Sequence through	Sequence through	Not Active	Sequence through	Sequence	Soft Key
					INFO when joystick is active	Horizontal and	120˚ and 360˚		Normal, Above	through 120˚ and
					to get more info about items	Vertical Profile*	views.		and Below views.	360˚ views
					pointed to on the map.	views.				(Default = 360˚).
OVLY					Active when overlays avail-	Active when over-	Active when over-	Active when overlays	Active when over-	Active when over-	Soft Key
					able. Brings up overlay	lays available.	lays available.	available. Brings up	lays available.	lays available.
					select Soft Keys.	Brings up overlay	Brings up overlay	overlay select Soft	Brings up overlay	Brings up overlay
						select Soft Keys.	select Soft Keys.	Keys.	select Soft Keys.	select Soft Keys.
OUTER					Rotate to bring up Airport	Rotate to select	Not Active	Rotate to select	Rotate to select	Rotate to select	Not
KNOB					More Info page and select	Sby, Tst, On, Set		report identifier. Also,	Sby, Tst, On, Off.	Tst, Nrm, Set	Active
					the airport identifier.	(Default = Sby).		sequences Graphical		(Default = Nrm).
								Weather Pages.
INNER					Rotate to bring up Airport	Gain control*	Not Active	Rotate to select	Rotate to select	Not Active	Not
KNOB					More Info page and select			report identifier. Also,	Mute On, Mute		Active
					the airport identifier.			sequences Graphical	Off.
								Weather Pages.
* Not available in all configurations

CONTROLS OF INTERACTION

	MAP FUNCTION
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1Display Range - RNG:####nm

2Current Track - TRK:###

3Current Ground Speed - GS:###kt

4Distance to Pointer - PDIS: ###.#nm

5Position Readout - Current aircraft position

6Control Knob Label - Indicates Control Knob is active for data entry

7Bearing to Pointer - PBRG: ###

8MORE INFO Soft Label

9Range Rings - Outer ring radius is selected range, inner ring radius is one half the selected range

10RESET STICK Soft Label

11Joystick Label

12Lightning Overlay

13Desired Track - Active leg oriented to magnetic desired track (magenta)

14GPS Flight Plan Overlay - Current GPS flight plan

15Aircraft Symbol - Indicates present position. Stylized airplane when heading input is present, a plus symbol with no heading.

16Distance to Waypoint - DIS:###.#nm

17North Pointer

18Available 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			Not displayed
Boundary
Railway			Not displayed
Roads	Major		Not displayed
	Prime		Not displayed
	Other		Not displayed
Victor
Airways
Heliroutes
Airspace	FIR/UIR			Boundary label will be FIR,
Boundary				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.
	Temporary Flight			Boundary label will be TFR.
	Restrictions
	MOA/MATZ			Boundary label will be MOA
				or MATZ per airspace type.
	Other SUA (Radar			Boundary label will be ALT,
	Area, Alert, Caution,			CTN, DGR, MOA, PHB,
	Training, Warning or			RES, TNG, WNG, ADV,
	Unspecified/			CBA, TRA, TSA, or UNK.
	Unknown)
Cities			Not displayed
Intersections
(INTs)
Obstacles	Lighted - Tall			Label will indicate MSL ele-
				vation followed by AGL ele-
	Lighted - Short
				vation in parentheses [e.g.
	Unlighted - Tall
				“1546 (590)”]. Tall is defined
	Unlighted - Short			as over 1,000 ft. AGL.
NDBs

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Feature

Conditions

Map Icons

Other Characteristics

TOPO on

TOPO off

VORs

With DME

Without DME

Airports

Hard runway +

Line rep-

Line rep-

If the database does not

IFR approach

resents

resents

have runways for the air-

primary runway

primary runway

port, then the icon will not

indicate a runway (no line

Hard runway, no

Line rep-

Line rep-

will be displayed).

IFR approach

resents

resents

primary runway

primary runway

IFR approach

Line rep-

Line rep-

available

resents

resents

primary runway

primary runway

Soft or unknown

Line rep-

Line rep-

runways

resents

resents

primary runway

primary runway

Airport

Primary, hard

Runways are shown for

Runways

surface

airports within 5 nm of

current position and

Other hard sur-

face

selected range is 10 nm

or less. Runway ends are

Primary soft sur-

labeled with the proper

face

runway identifier if

Other soft sur-

selected range is 1 nm.

face

Helipads

VRPs

Not displayed

OVERLAYING DATA

			OVERLAY TYPE
MODE	FLIGHT PLAN		STORMSCOPE®	TRAFFIC	METAR	DATA LINK	SCIT	TFR
			Yes1	Yes2		LIGHTNING		Yes5
MAP - TOPO ON		Yes			Yes	No	No
MAP - TOPO OFF		Yes	Yes1	Yes2	Yes	No	No	Yes5
WX - Weather Radar		Yes1	Yes	Yes3	No	No	No	No
WX - Stormscope®		Yes1	N/A	No	No	No	No	No
WX - NEXRAD		Yes	Yes1	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
WX - Precipitation Type5		Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
WX - Freezing Levels5		Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
WX - Winds Aloft5		Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
WX - Graphical METAR		Yes	No	No	N/A	No	No	No
WX - Graphical AIRMET		Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	No	No
WX - Graphical SIGMET		Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	No	No
WX - Graphical Convective		Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	No	No
SIGMET		Yes4	Yes1, 4
WX - Graphical Wx Watches				No	No	No	No	No
TERR		Yes	Yes1	Yes2	No	No	No	No
TRFC		Yes1	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

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	WEATHER RADAR
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1Aircraft Symbol

2Knob Function Label - Rotating the outer knob selects between Standby (SBY), Test (TST), ON and SET modes.

3Display Range Indications

4Tilt Angle - XX.X Degrees up (U) or down (D).

5Joystick 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.

6Stabilization Indication

7Track Angle

8WX Radar Mode Indication - TEST, WX, WX/ARL (Auto Range Limiting or MAP (Ground Mapping Mode)

9Available Functions - Displays icons representing data available (black) and displayed (color)

10Fault Message Window - See Error and Fault Messages

AVAILABLE WEATHER RADAR FUNCTION ICONS

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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STORMSCOPE

AVAILABLE STORMSCOPE FUNCTION ICONS

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 ICONS

WX-500

Lightning	Color	Used on Pages	Additional Requirements
Icon
	White	MAP (TOPO-ON or	The small solid icon is used when
		TOPO-OFF)	the display selected range is 25 nm
			or greater.
	White	WX, TRFC, TERR
	White	MAP (TOPO-ON or	The large outlined icon is used when
	Outline	TOPO-OFF)	the display selected range is less
			than 25 nm.
	White	WX, TRFC, TERR
	Outline

WX-1000E

Lightning		Intensity	Color	Used on	Comments
Icon		Level		Pages
	1	(Light)	White	MAP,	The small solid icon is used when the dis-
			with	WX,	play selected range is 25 nm or greater.
	2	(Moderate)
			black	TERR	The WX-1000E indicates areas of lightning
	3	(Heavy)	border
					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.
	1	(Light)	White	MAP,	The large outlined icon is used when the
			with	WX,	display selected range is less than 25 nm.
			black	TERR	The larger icon reminds the user that the
	2	(Moderate)	border
					accuracy of lightning placement is not as
					good as that suggested by the map scale.
	3	(Heavy)

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FIS VDL AND XM DATALINK WEATHER

**NEXRAD Composite with XM NEXRAD Base with VDL

No AWWs for XM

**NEXRAD Composite with XM NEXRAD Base with VDL

No AWWs for XM

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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.

Get Display ID from unit in airplane

Go to Bendixking.com or call 1-800-247-0230

to subscribe to FIS Services

Enter Display ID during registration

(This is only required first time you subscribe)

Select the desired				Receive Subscription		Take printed out code(s)
						to the airplane and enter
				Code(s) and print them
services						code(s) on the FIS Subscription
				out
						Status Page

Update Data Card if needed.		Enjoy flying with FIS
Update at least once per year
		Services!
to ensure continued FIS Services

SETTING UP A VDL SUBSCRIPTION

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