Bendix King General Aviation Flight Management Computer System The BendixKing/Honeywell FMC is for General Aviation use in Microsoft SImulator X. It is a simple and easy to use flight management system, that also provides the pilot with valuable data. It has a complete keyboard interface with lit buttons for night operations. Nav Aid information, Airport information, and easy tunes your radios with a click of a button. It also provides your Autopilot with Vertical navigation. This information is calculated automatically from your flight plan, and entered into the route information. The Menu page provides access to the Navigation database, as well as performance and location setup pages. The Position (LK2) button gives you information about your present location. The first step in preparing for flight is to load a flight plan from your FSX flight planner. After you have loaded a flight plan, turn on your FMC and click on the LK3 button to set your Performance information.
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Bendix KingGeneral Aviation Flight
Management Computer System
The BendixKing/Honeywell FMC is forGeneral Aviation use in Microsoft SImulatorX. It is a simple and easy to use flightmanagement system, that also provides thepilot with valuable data.
It has a complete keyboard interface with litbuttons for night operations. Nav Aidinformation, Airport information, and easytunes your radios with a click of a button.
It also provides your Autopilot with Verticalnavigation. This information is calculatedautomatically from your flight plan, andentered into the route information.
The Menu page provides access tothe Navigation database, as well asperformance and location setuppages.
The Position (LK2) button gives youinformation about your presentlocation.
The first step in preparing for flightis to load a flight plan from your FSXflight planner.
After you have loaded a flight plan,turn on your FMC and click on theLK3 button to set your Performanceinformation.
The Performance page shows your grossweight, fuel information, and otherperformance settings.
These are automatically generated fromyour aircraft configuration. You will needto enter the desired cruise altitude. Andyou can adjust the transition altitude aswell.
Typically the transition altitude is 18,000feet. You cruise altitude can be below this,as most GA aircraft do not have the abilityto fly this high.
After setting your cruise altitude, press(RK6) Calc Vnav, then EXEC, and the FMCwill calculate the altitudes, and Airspeedat each waypoint in your route.
You will be automatically taken to theRTE page where you can check yourspeeds and altitudes. You can use theDEP/ARV button to add any departuresor arrivals to the route. If you add anySID/STARS you must recalulate yourroute from the Perf page.
If all looks ok, hit Activate and thenEXEC again to activate Vnav link to yourAutopilot.
The FMC uses data from your aircraftconfiguration to set the airspeeds at eachwaypoint. It also will not allow you to goabove 250 knots below 10,000 feet.
If you need to adjust any airspeed oraltitude settings, use the LEGS button toedit the legs of your route.
By entering a 3 digit number, you can adjustthe airspeed. 3 digits or more adjusts thealtitude. Enter the number and click the (RK)key next to the WP you wish to change.
The Prev/Next buttons will advance you thruthe pages.
When you finish your reviewand edit of theflight plan, hit ACTIVATE to turn on Vnavoutput to the Autopilot. The FMC willactivate the flight plan, but hold until youpress your Autopilot Master arm.
Vnav Off will replace Activate, by pressingthe (RK) key and EXEC again you will turnoff Vertical navigation. The autopilot willretain the programing and continue on coursewithout Vnav.
The VNAV Button, and PROG buttonswill display your flight progress. Itincludes the distance to your nextwaypoint, and your destination.
You can also find your ETA to thewaypoint and destination, and the fuelused and remaining when you land.
It also displays the wind speed anddirection for your current location.
You can use the POS REF (RK6) to getyour current positioning.
Use the HOLD button to jump to anywaypoint in your route. Click on a (RK) keynext to the desired waypoint, and pressEXEC to execute the change.
This feature is very handy when you messup planning your route. =)
You can also jump to your performancepage to make adjustments and recalulateyour Vnav form this point.
If you do not wish to fly a flight plan, andjust fly direct to a location, press the DTObutton and enter the ICAO for thedestination and activate the FMC.
Now that your flying, you can switch to theGPS map and see where your going. PressMAP to go to the GPS map display.
The GPS map provides the pilot with alot ofinformation about the flight. Most of whichis self explanitory. BRG is the bearing toWaypoint. CTS is the course to stear. In thetop center is your heading. Bottom left isyour Xtrack error. And bottom right is yourabove ground altitude.
In the info bar on the bottom you have thewaypoint, distance, ETE, Ground speed,and Required vertical speed. The RVS is theVS you need to keep to make your waypointat the AP altitude setting.
The GPS map also contains Traffic radarand information. Use the RK buttons tomanage terrain view and traffic viewsettings.
From the menu, you can select the Navinfo page for information on all types ofnavigation information.
On the right is information on the nearestairports, intersections, NDBs, and VORs.The left side has buttons to the individualNav Aid references.
Nav options will take you to a referencepage showing DME information to theclosest Nav Aid points to the aircraftslocation.
The nearest Airport, and Nav aid pageswill show the distance, bearing, andrelative radio frequency for each.
Clicking the (RK) button next to each itemwill automatically tune your COM/NAVradio to the designated frequency.
Stations with no radio or tower will showa frequency of 000.000
Use the Return button to return to the NavAid menu.
The individual Nav Aid information pageswill show the class, area, Lat/Lon, distance,magnetic variation, and frequency of thenavigation aid.
The (RK1) key is used to selct these afterentering the Ident for that nav aid. You canuse the FMC keyboard, or your computerkeyboard to enter the codes.
Selecting Airport Ident will take you to theairport information pages. Enter the desiredICAO via the FMC keyboard, or yourcomputers keyboard. Click on (LK1) buttonto select the ICAO from the database.
The Airport information pages containmuch of the needed information for theairport. It includes airport information,runway information, and radio informationincluding ILS frequencies.
You can set your COM/NAV radios here byclicking the (RK) key next to the desiredfrequency.
Use PREV and NEXT to move through thepages.
On page 1 of the airport information pageyou can click (RK5) to pull up a map of thearea.
You can turn on and off features to this mapusing the (LK) buttons. Traffic view is evenavailable on this map page.This page does not track with the aircraft, andcan be scrolled using the FMC number keys.Arrows on the keypad denote the scrolldirection, with number 5 centering the mapagain to the location.
Turn terrain off for a better view oftraffic. You can select targets and rotatethe tags with the (RK) keys.
Leave terrain on for a better view oftraffic and terrain. This gives you a goodview of your surroundings.
Bendix King/Honeywell GA FMCCopyright 2008 Garrett Smith All rights reseved
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