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