Bendix/King KFC 400 - Flight Director Operations

irector Operations
KMS 446 Mode Selector Panel
The KMS 446 provides complete
selection of flight director modes,
ranging from basic pitch and roll atti-
tude hold through advanced lateral
and vertical navigation functions. Con-
tinuous, automatic performance moni-
toring ensures the accuracy and relia-
bility of flight director commands to
provide efficient, safe and effective
guidance in any situation.
Flight Management System the
KFC
400 can combine horizontal and
vertical navigation functions to provide
complete, three-dimensional flight
guidance.
The.KFC
400 can engage in only
one horizontal and one vertical track-
ing mode at a time. Flight director
modes engaged in initial, arming se-
quences, however, do not conflict with
tracking operations in other modes.
For example, selecting a new course
in the Nav Arm mode, or a new alti-
tude in Altitude Select, does not affect
When interfaced with the KNS
660
active tracking modes such as Head-
ing or Altitude Hold.
It often is useful
to engage
a separate mode to provide
flight guidance to the capture point for
a course or altitude selected in an
Arm mode. The Flight Control System
will transition automatically to the
armed mode, cancelling the previous
selection.
engaged in either capture or tracking
operations, either
select an alternate
tracking mode or press the engaged
mode's selector key. The latter meth-
od also cancels modes while in their
Arm phases.
Go Around is an excep-
tion, as the remote pushbutton pro-
vides the engage function only.
ting with no horizontal or vertical
mode selected, the KFC
400 auto-
matically engages in
Roll Attitude
Hold and Pitch Altitude Hold. These
default modes provide basic flight sta-
bility and serve as safety backups in
To cancel a flight director mode
When the flight director is opera-
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