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8 FLIGHT PLANNING SCREENS
In order to allow you to navigate along pre-planned flight plans, your Bendix/King equipment has
facilities to memorise up to 500 user waypoints. Using these user waypoints together with the
enormous built-in database you can then plan up to 99 flight plans. The maximum length of each flight
plan is limited only by the total number of flight plans stored. The equipment has a capacity to store up
to 500 flight plan points with a maximum number of user waypoints in any one flight plan of 99.
For example, you can program 99 flight plans, each with 5 waypoints making a total of just under 500
flight plan waypoints or you could program 5 flight plans each with 99 waypoints. If you attempt to
exceed 500 waypoints the unit will display a FLIGHT PLANS FULL message.
For simple single-leg navigation there is a useful “goto” or DIRECT TO navigation mode. This allows
you to fly from your present position directly to any point in the world. More details about this function
are discussed in the Map Mode Screens Section of this Manual.
All user waypoints and flight plans are normally programmed before embarking on the trip and stored
in the unit's user waypoint and flight plan library.
User Waypoints
A user waypoint is a specific location anywhere in the world, defined by an icon, a name of up to nine
letters or numbers and by a latitude and longitude. In your new Bendix/King equipment there are three
types of user-defined user waypoints, each with a specific function.
Basic User Waypoints are purely user-defined points. These are used in flight plan building, along
with data points from the internal database, or simply to add personalised points to your map. A large
choice of icon styles are available.
Marker User Waypoints are also user-defined waypoints. These can be configured to act as alarm
trigger markers. For example, say you are flying a flight plan and you know you have to make a radio
call or initiate a climb at a specific point. A Marker User Waypoint can be positioned at that location
(but not included in the flight plan) and be set up to trigger an alarm. If a user waypoint is to be used as
an alarm trigger, when it is programmed it is given the name MARKERX.X (by pressing the MARKER
key). The word MARKER here specifies to the software that this user waypoint is to be used as a
marker point only and that no name is to be printed next to the user waypoint icon on the map. The
X.X specifies the alarm trigger distance between 0.1nm and 9.9nm. The default is 1.0nm. A circle of
the specified radius will appear around the marker point on the map.
While the Bendix/King software is searching to locate the nearest items for conventional position
reporting, if it pulls up a user waypoint named MARKERX.X, it will continuously compare the distance
from the present position to the Marker User waypoint with the value X.X. When the distance to the
Marker becomes less than or equal to X.X then an audible alarm will be triggered. A box will also
appear at the top of the screen showing MARKER IMMINENT. Key 5 will change to ALARM OFF and
when pressed, will silence the audio alarm and remove the MARKER IMMINENT message.
Should you wish a Marker waypoint to have a name next to it for reference, you simply program a
Basic User Waypoint with the same co-ordinates as the Marker and give this one a conventional
name. The Basic and Marker User Waypoint icons would then be superimposed on each other,
resulting in a single, named Marker User Waypoint.
User Defined Airports. Owing to the fact that many private and unlicensed airports are not included
within the Jeppesen database contained within your unit, you have the opportunity to program up to 25
of your own USER DEFINED AIRPORTS. User waypoints numbered 101 - 125 have been reserved
for this purpose and whenever any of these is selected for editing on Screen 8, User Waypoint Viewer
Screen, the Screen 8A will be displayed instead. This Screen allows the insertion of additional
information, so permitting 25 user waypoints to become user-defined airports. These will be shown on
the map pages with an airport icon instead of a user waypoint icon. The user-defined airports will also
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