| "How safe is it?" Along with "How much does | | | | display) in your cockpit. For a small monthly |
| it cost?" this is a question we often hear | | | | fee, you can also receive NEXRAD radar and |
| when someone is considering flight training | | | | additional weather products that promote |
| as an option for depleting his or her | | | | additional weather avoidance capability. |
| discretionary income. Our industry has | | | | |
| experienced a marked reduction in overall | | | | Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT): The |
| accidents and statistically, a 27.8% | | | | KMH 880 Multi-Hazard Awareness System |
| reduction in the most recent 7 years! During | | | | combines traffic and terrain avoidance |
| this same time period General Aviation fatal | | | | features in one unit. Combined with the KDR |
| accidents dropped 32.6% to just over 1 | | | | 510 and displayed on the KMD 550, you can |
| fatality for every 100,000-flight hours. | | | | have all the situational awareness available |
| | | | to ensure an up-to-the-second picture of your |
| Of these accidents, 80% are either partially | | | | flight situation. |
| or completely pilot induced, with weather | | | | |
| related accidents and controlled flight into | | | | Workload Reduction: The KMD 550 |
| terrain (CFIT) accounting for the majority of | | | | Multi-Function Display (MFD) lets you spend |
| fatalities. | | | | less time looking at your instruments and |
| | | | more time flying your aircraft. The system |
| So what is the industry doing to address the | | | | gives you the information you need without |
| issue of pilot errors? | | | | added clutter, all while reducing the time |
| | | | required to manage each safety system. Along |
| Bendix/King has taken the bull by the horns | | | | with its capability to display traffic, |
| and addressed this challenge with several new | | | | weather, terrain and moving map information, |
| avionics products, and Cessna has taken the | | | | the KMD 550 also provides a wealth of |
| next step by including the Bendix/King | | | | reference information to the pilot including |
| advanced avionics package in their aircraft. | | | | airports, NDBs, intersections, VORs, |
| | | | special-use airspace, victor airways, rivers, |
| Situational Awareness: With its moving map | | | | roads, lakes, cities and towers. When |
| and IFR approach capability, the KLN94 GPS | | | | interfaced to the KLN 94, the KMD 550 can |
| provides added safety through increased | | | | also display holding patterns, procedure |
| situational awareness. This GPS with its full | | | | turns and DME arcs for even greater |
| color screen is as easy to operate, as it is | | | | situational awareness. Most importantly, this |
| to view. | | | | MFD is simple to use and sports a bright, |
| | | | razor-sharp display! |
| Weather: Bendix/King Data Link Weather | | | | |
| features a state-of-the-art data link system | | | | So, how much safer can General Aviation |
| to bring textual and graphical weather to | | | | become? It seems to me that the sky's the |
| your cockpit with a high speed, high | | | | limit! Who would have guessed that today's |
| bandwidth system. With the KDR 510, weather | | | | General Aviation aircraft would have these |
| information (including METARs, TAFs, and | | | | capabilities? And I suppose the question |
| PIREPs) is automatically updated and | | | | follows . . . |
| displayed on your KMD 550 (multi-function | | | | |