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