Abbreviated Pilot’s Guide KLN 900 Global Positioning System ORS 01, 02, and 04
B KLN 900 GPS Abbreviated Operation Manual ORS 01, 02, and 04 IMPORTANT: Special installation procedures must be followed in order for the KLN 900 to be certified for IFR use. Consult the KLN 900 Flight Manual Supplement for the operating limitations of this unit. NOTE: Refer to section 2.8 of the KLN 900 Pilot‘s Guide (006-08796-0000) for Database update information.
PREVIEW OF OPERATION .................................................................1 1.0 TURN ON ......................................................................................3 2.0 BASIC OPERATION OF PANEL CONTROLS .............................6 2.1 Page Selection ........................................................................6 2.2 Entering Waypoint Identifiers ..................................................8 2.3 The Duplicate Waypoint Page ............................................
10.2 Creating A Waypoint As A Radial And Distance From Another Waypoint ......................................................36 10.3 Creating A Waypoint By Entering A Latitude/ Longitude Position ..............................................................37 11.0 DELETING USER WAYPOINTS ...............................................38 12.0 CREATING AND MODIFYING FLIGHT PLANS .......................38 12.1 Creating A Flight Plan .........................................................39 12.
PREVIEW OF OPERATION This abbreviated operation manual describes many of the frequently used features of the KLN 900 in a condensed format for your convenience. It does not replace the KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide. The KLN 900 has many very useful features which are not described in this manual. Be sure to keep your KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide with you in the aircraft to use as a reference. To give you an idea of how easy the KLN 900 is to operate, the following operational preview is presented.
position the cursor over the last character of the altimeter setting. Use the right inner knob to complete entering the correct altimeter setting. Turn the right outer knob clockwise to position the cursor over the word APPROVE? if the cursor is not there already. Press E to approve the Self Test page. (Note: If the KLN 900 is installed for VFR only operation, a VFR only warning page is displayed after the self test page has been approved. This warning page must be acknowledged by pressing E.) 3.
IMPORTANT: This abbreviated operation manual does not include any information on how to use the KLN 900 for flying approaches or SID/STAR procedures. Refer to the KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide and the aircraft flight manual supplement for instructions on these procedures. 1.0 TURN ON • Push the Power/Brightness knob located in the upper right corner of unit to the “in” position. The unit is turned off by pulling this knob to the “out” position.
cator should display 34.5 nm. If necessary, refer to the KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide for more information. The KLN 900 stores the correct time, date and last location of the aircraft in memory. If any of these parameters are not correct then the GPS receiver in the KLN 900 will automatically enter a mode in which it can determine this information. This usually will take less than 12 minutes, so the KLN 900 should be able to determine its position by the time you have taxied to the runway.
accuracy. This altitude input is used for altitude related features of the KLN 900. Therefore, it is important to keep the altimeter baro setting updated on the Self Test page when power is first applied to the KLN 900 and on the Altitude page each time a new baro correction is made to the aircraft’s altimeter. The altimeter baro setting may be changed at a later time from inches to millibars (or vice versa) on the SET 7 page.
2.0 BASIC OPERATION OF PANEL CONTROLS Top Left Segment "Left Page" Top Right Segment "Right Page" ı GPS BRT CRSR Lower Left Segment PUSH ON CRSR D> CLR ENT OBS ALT NRST PULL SCAN MSG Lower Right Segment Lower Middle Segment SAV 2.1 Page Selection The screen is normally divided into five segments defined by vertical and horizontal lines on the screen. The large top left segment is called the left page and the large top right segment is called the right page.
shown in the lower left and right segments is replaced with a CRSR annunciation in inverse video. Not all pages allow you to enter data, and therefore pressing the C button while these pages are displayed will have no effect. There are eight types of pages that may be displayed on the left side of the screen and ten types of pages that may be displayed on the right side. The abbreviations for these page types are displayed around the outside of the left and right outer knobs.
The eight page types for the left side are the following: Page Annunciation Knob Annunciation Page Name Page Numbers TRI MODE FPL NAV CAL STA SET OTH TRIP MODE FPL NAV CALC STAT SETUP OTHER Trip Planning Mode Flight Plan Navigation Calculator Status Setup Other 0-6 None 0 - 25 1-5 1-7 1-4* 0-9 0 - 4 ** * There are 5 STA pages on KLN 900’s with ORS 04 or greater ** Up to 10 pages with fuel management system and air data interfaces The ten page types for the right side are the following: Page Annunciation
NOTE: If you are entering an airport identifier that is all letters (no numbers), then it will begin with a “K” prefix in the Contiguous U.S., a “P” in Alaska, or a “C” in Canada. If there are numbers in the identifier, then a prefix is not used. For other areas of the world the airport identifier stored in the KLN 900 database is identical to how it is charted. Like all rules there are also exceptions to the guidelines given above.
waypoints in the database having the identifier. Below the identifier is a list of the waypoint types (APT, VOR, NDB, INT, SUP) and the associated countries which use the identifier. To see an example of a Duplicate Waypoint page perform the following steps: • Press D. • Turn the left inner knob to select the letter D as a waypoint identifier. “D” is the full identifier of several waypoints in the KLN 900 database. • Press E. The Duplicate Waypoint page will be displayed on the left side .
almanac data will become out-of-date only if the KLN 900 hasn’t been used for the previous six months or longer. Collecting new almanac data takes place automatically if the data is more than six months old. If the almanac data is out-of-date and needs to be collected, the KLN 900 will take a few minutes to acquire your present position (usually about two minutes, but not more than 12 minutes). The Self Test and Database pages should be approved. 2.
f. Press E to view the waypoint page on the right side. g. Press E again to confirm the waypoint page. NOTE: As an alternative, you can also enter the approximate latitude and longitude of your present position directly on the SET 1 page instead of entering a waypoint identifier. h. Use the left outer knob to position the cursor over CONFIRM?, if it is not there already. i. Press E. NOTE: The groundspeed (KT) and heading ( °) fields are not used for actual initialization in an aircraft.
If neither of the previous two conditions are occurring, then: 3. If there is any waypoint page (APT 1-8 page, VOR page, NDB page, INT page, SUP page, or ACT page) in view on the right side when D is pressed, then the Direct To page will contain the identifier for the waypoint page being viewed on the right side. If none of the previous three conditions are occurring, then: 4. When D is pressed, the waypoint identifier for the current active waypoint will be displayed. 5.
4.2 Direct To - Procedure B • Select the desired waypoint type (APT, VOR, NDB, INT, or SUP) on the right page. • Select the desired waypoint identifier using the following method: a. Press the right C. The cursor will be over the first character in the waypoint identifier. b. Rotate the right inner knob to select the first character of the desired identifier. c.
• Press E to approve the waypoint page displayed on the right side. The right side will display the NAV 1 page, and the left side will return to the page which was displayed prior to pressing D (unless the NAV 1 page was on the left side in which case the pages will revert to the state they were in prior to the direct to operation). The selected waypoint is now the active Direct To waypoint. 4.
described previously under “BASIC OPERATION OF PANEL CONTROLS”. NAV pages 1,2,3, and 5 are briefly described here. The KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide must be referred to for an explanation of the NAV 4 page (vertical navigation) and for more detailed information on all other NAV pages. 5.1 The Navigation 1 Page (NAV 1) The NAV 1 page displays the following information: • The active navigation leg. For Direct To operation this consists of the Direct To symbol, H, followed by the active Direct To waypoint identifier.
5.3 The Navigation 2 Page (NAV 2) The NAV 2 page displays the aircraft’s present position in two formats. The first format is in terms of the distance and radial from a nearby VOR. (Although terminal VOR’s are in the database, they are not used on this page since many aeronautical charts do not display a compass rose around them for orientation purposes). The second format is in latitude and longitude. 5.
5 page is like looking at a navigation chart with North at the top. When the desired track up display is selected, viewing the NAV 5 page is like looking at a chart that is turned so that your course line is always pointing up. When the actual track up display is selected, viewing the NAV 5 page is like looking at a chart that is turned so that the direction the aircraft is tracking over the ground is pointing up. In a no wind condition, actual track is identical to the aircraft’s heading.
The range scale indicates the distance from the aircraft’s position (the diamond or aircraft symbol) to the top of the screen. Range scale selections from 1 NM to 1000 NM or from 2 km to 1850 km may be made by pressing the appropriate C and turning the appropriate inner knob. When the NAV 5 page is displayed on the left side of the screen and any selected waypoint page is displayed on the right side, the location of the selected waypoint is indicated by a “+” on the NAV 5 page.
NAV 5 page except there is an additional choice, AUTO, that is located between the 1 and 1000 nm (or 2 km to 1850 km) scale factors. The AUTO scale factor will automatically choose the smallest map scale that will display the active waypoint and, if there is one, the waypoint after the active waypoint. Choosing the AUTO scale factor means there is one less item for you to worry about. This is especially helpful when conducting non-precision approaches using the KLN 900.
When the desired selections have been made, press the right C to remove the menu . One last feature of the Super NAV 5 page is that you can scan through the waypoints of the active flight plan. This is done by pulling on the right inner knob to place it in the “out” position. This will create a “window” at the bottom right corner of the display that will initially contain the active waypoint in reverse video.
message annunciator may also be installed in the aircraft instrument panel. You should view the message at your earliest opportunity because the unit may be alerting you to some condition of immediate concern to its condition or to your flight. To view the message, press M. The Message page, which takes the whole width of the display, will appear and show the new message. Appendix B of the KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide contains a listing of all of the Message page messages and their meanings.
The SUA alert feature is three dimensional. The SUA areas are stored in the KLN 900 database with regard to altitude when the actual SUA altitude limitations are charted in terms of mean sea level (MSL). Therefore, if you are flying either above or below an SUA area you won’t be inconvenienced with nuisance alert messages.
C to turn on the left cursor function. The left inner knob is used to display AIRSPACE ALERT ENABLE or AIRSPACE ALERT DISABLE. If the SUA alert feature has been enabled, the KLN 900 allows you to select a vertical buffer on the SET 8 page in order to provide an additional layer of protection from inadvertently entering a SUA area. To select a vertical buffer, make sure the SUA alert feature has been enabled.
c. Turn the right outer knob one step clockwise to move the cursor to the second character and then use the right inner knob to select the second character. d. Use the right outer and inner knobs as in the previous two steps to complete the identifier. Method 2: a. Pull the right inner knob to the “out” position. b. Rotate the right inner knob in either direction to scan through the waypoint identifiers in alphabetical order. The faster you rotate the knob, the larger the change.
8.3 The Airport 2 Page (APT 2) The Airport 2 page contains the following information: • Airport identifier. An arrow precedes the identifier if it is the active waypoint. • The city where the airport is located. • The state if the airport is located in the United States, the Province if located in Canada, or the country if located outside the United States and Canada. A listing of the abbreviations used is contained in Appendix D of the KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide.
• Airport identifier. An arrow precedes the identifier if it is the active waypoint. • The letters “RT” followed by a runway designation indicate that the runway normally has a right hand traffic pattern. For example, RT 25 31 designates that runways 25 and 31 have a right hand traffic pattern. • Runway number designation for both ends of the runway.
ATF - aerodrome traffic frequency AFIS - aerodrome flight information service CL B -Class B airspace (VFR frequency) CL C -Class C airspace (VFR frequency) TRSA -Terminal Radar Service Area (VFR frequency) CTA - control area (VFR frequency used outside USA) TMA - terminal area (VFR frequency used outside USA) APR - approach control DEP - departure control CTR - center (when center is used for approach/departure control) ARVL - arrival RDR - radar-only frequency DIR - director (approach control/radar) ASOS -
8.6 The Airport 5 Page (APT 5) The Airport 5 page is used to store and display user-entered remarks. Up to 100 airports may contain these remarks. A remark may contain up to three lines of eleven characters each. Letters, numbers, hyphens, and spaces may be used in the remark. To enter a remark: • Select the APT 5 page for the desired airport. • Press the right C. • Rotate the right outer knob until the cursor fills the entire third line of the screen.
CUSTMS-REST CUSTMS-ADCS Customs facilities are available on a restricted basis, check with the airport before planning to use Customs are available for private aircraft arriving to the U.S. from Canada or Mexico. Advance notice of arrival to customs officers is to be included in the flight plan transmitted to an FAA facility. This code is used when this is the only type customs facility available. The FAA term for the service is “ADCUS”.
8.10 The VOR Page The VOR page contains the following information: • VOR identifier. An arrow precedes the identifier if it is the active waypoint. • The letter “D” appears following the VOR identifier if the VOR has DME capability. • The name of the VOR. • The class of VOR T - terminal L - low altitude H - high altitude U - undefined • The VOR frequency (MHz). • The published magnetic variation of the VOR. • The latitude and longitude of the VOR. 8.
expressed in terms of a radial and distance from a nearby VOR. The KLN 900 chooses the closest VOR. It takes a few seconds for the VOR ident, radial, and distance to be calculated and displayed. • The latitude and longitude of the intersection, outer marker, or outer compass locator. In addition, the user may enter the identifier of another nearby waypoint in the REF field, and the page will compute and display the radial and distance from the nearby waypoint to the intersection.
• Rotate the right inner knob counterclockwise to initially scan through a complete list of all airport identifiers backward in alphabetical order. There are actually two waypoint scan lists. These two lists are the “complete” list and the “nearest” list. The complete list contains all of the airport waypoints in the database. The nearest list consists of the nine nearest airports to your present position. The nearest list is positioned in front of the complete list.
is that in the event of an actual emergency once you have determined which airport you are heading for, you don’t want the nearest airport list to update while you are maneuvering or looking up data on the other airport pages for that airport. There may be times, however, when you’re flying over “unfriendly” terrain when you wish to always have to nearest airport displayed on the right side of the screen while you view another page, such as the NAV 1 page, on the left side.
10.0 CREATING USER WAYPOINTS Up to 1000 (250 for ORS 01 units) user-defined waypoints may be created. These waypoints must contain an identifier, latitude, and longitude. This manual describes the most common methods of creating userdefined waypoints. Regardless of which of the three methods described below is utilized for creating a user-defined waypoint, it is first necessary to enter a unique identifier for the waypoint. The identifier can be one to five characters in length.
user is given an option to overwrite the waypoint name. Pressing F at any time will cancel the save operation and the page will revert to the page which was displayed before the SAVE page. If there are already 250 user waypoints when the E button is pressed with an unique SUP ident, the scratchpad message "USR DB FULL" will be generated.
• Press E again to approve this waypoint page. The waypoint page being created will return with the cursor over the dashes to the right of RAD. • Use the right inner and outer knobs to select the radial (from the reference waypoint). The radial may be selected to the nearest tenth of a degree. • Press E. The cursor will move to the dashes to the right of DIS. • Use the right inner and outer knobs to select the distance. The distance may be selected to the nearest tenth of a nautical mile. • Press E.
11.0 DELETING USER WAYPOINTS A listing of all user-defined waypoints is contained on the Other 3 page (OTH 3). The user-defined waypoints are listed by category; airports (A) are first, VORs (V) are second, NDBs (N) are third, Intersections (I) are fourth, and Supplemental waypoints (S) are last. Within each category, the waypoints are alphabetized by identifier. To the right of the identifier is the type waypoint defined (A,V,N,I, or S).
to FPL 0 as the “active flight plan” and FPL 1 through FPL 25 as the “numbered flight plans”. If desired, a flight plan can be created directly in the active flight plan. This avoids creating the flight plan in a numbered flight plan and then having to activate it. The disadvantage is that if a numbered flight plan is subsequently made active (i.e. copied to FPL 0), the one programmed directly into FPL 0 will be lost.
the right side. Refer to section 10.0, “CREATING USER WAYPOINTS”, for instruction on how to define a user created waypoint. • Press E again to approve the waypoint page being displayed. The cursor will move to the second waypoint position. NOTE: A small number of waypoints are stored in the database as “flyover” waypoints. These waypoints are associated with SID/STAR procedures.
• Press E to activate the flight plan in the order shown. To activate the flight plan in inverse order (first waypoint becomes last and last waypoint becomes first), rotate the left outer knob one step clockwise to position the cursor over USE? INVRT? before pressing E. • The selected flight plan is now displayed as FPL 0, the active flight plan. Any changes made to FPL 0 will not affect how this flight plan is stored as the numbered flight plan. 12.
• Rotate the left outer knob as necessary to position the cursor over the waypoint to be deleted. • Press F. The letters DEL (delete) will appear to the left of the identifier and a question mark will appear to the right of the identifier. If a mistake was made and you do not wish to delete this waypoint, press F. • Press E and the waypoint will be deleted from the flight plan. The other waypoints in the flight plan will be correctly repositioned. 12.
13.0 OPERATING FROM THE ACTIVE FLIGHT PLAN 13.1 General Procedures Everything described in this manual thus far is applicable to using the KLN 900 for flight plan operation.
13.2 Turn Anticipation And Waypoint Alerting Prior to reaching a waypoint in the active flight plan, the KLN 900 will provide navigation along a curved path segment to ensure a smooth transition between two adjacent legs in the flight plan. That is, the CDI or HSI left/right deviation will be referenced to the dashed line in the following figure. This feature is called turn anticipation.
WPT 3 the waypoint number designates the active waypoint. The letter to the far right of the identifier designates the type of waypoint: A = airport, V = WPT 2 VOR, N = NDB, I = intersection, S = supplemental, or T=Terminal (see KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide). For VOR’s having DME capability, the letter D is displayed between the VOR identifier and the V.
The second method takes advantage of rule number 2 described in section 4.0. To use this method: • Display the Super NAV 5 page by selecting NAV 5 on both sides of the display. • Pull out the right inner knob. A “window” will appear in the bottom right hand corner that has the current active waypoint in reverse video. • Turn the right inner knob to scan through the waypoints of the active flight plan until the desired waypoint is displayed. • Press D.
13.7 The Distance/Time 2 Page (D/T 2) When the FPL 0 page is displayed on the left side and the D/T 2 page is displayed on the right side, the distance and estimated time of arrival are displayed for each of the active flight plan waypoints. The distances are as described for the D/T 1 page. The time zone associated with the estimated time of arrival is annunciated at the top right of the D/T 2 page.
SET 4 page displays RUN WHEN POWER IS ON, then the departure time is the time when power was applied to the KLN 900. The SET 4 page may be changed by pressing the left C while the SET 4 page is displayed on the left side and then rotating the left inner knob. Press the left C again to turn the left cursor function off. • TIME -The present time. The time may be reset on the Self Test page at system turn-on or on the SET 2 page. • ETA - The estimated time of arrival at the destination waypoint.
NOTE: There may be some difference (less than 100 feet) between the indicated altitude (IND) and the aircraft’s actual altitude if the altitude input to the KLN 900 is from an altitude encoder because these encoders only provide altitude in 100 foot increments. 3. Turn the left outer knob one step clockwise to position the cursor over the ALERT: field. If OFF is displayed, turn the left inner knob to select ON.
The KLN 900 can provide the aural alarm tones in either of two ways: it may be connected to an audio input of an audio amplifier contained in an audio panel so that the aural alarm is heard through the aircraft’s speaker and headphones. Or the KLN 900 may be interfaced with an external tone generator installed in the aircraft. In order to use altitude alerting, the KLN 900 must have an altitude input.
The second is to electronically update the database by means of 3.5” diskettes supplied by Honeywell and a laptop computer. This method does not involve removing the KLN 900 from the aircraft’s instrument panel. A data port on the front of KLN 900 provides a means of interfacing the unit with the computer via an interface cable. The diskettes are not returned to Honeywell. This method of update is for use anywhere in the world that diskettes may be shipped.
16.0 ITEMS NOT COVERED IN THIS MANUAL Be sure to take the time to read through the KLN 900 Pilot’s Guide. In some cases more detail is provided on subjects covered in this manual. Hundreds of illustrations are used to make learning to use the KLN 900 as easy as possible. In addition, the Pilot’s Guide describes many very useful KLN 900 features you will want to learn to use which are not covered in this manual.
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