Introduction; Emsis Basics; Command Panel - Kanardia EMSIS User And Installation Manual

EMSIS – User's and Installation Manual

1 Introduction

First of all, we would like to thank you for purchasing our product. The EMSIS system is a set of complex
electronics devices and we strongly recommend to carefully read this manual before installing and using
EMSIS system.
EMSIS is a name for a line of flight instruments which can be used as:
or both.
The introduction chapter contains some general information about the instrument and its operation. Later
chapters describe EMSIS use and reveal the details.

2 EMSIS Basics

This chapter describes the organization of the EMSIS instrument. It teaches you about the individual
buttons and their meaning. After reading it, you will be familiar with basic EMSIS operations.

2.1 Command Panel

EMSIS instruments come in two physical sizes. The first one is a standard aviation size, which is 80 mm
diagonal, while the second one is non-standard and is characterized with a 3.5" screen diameter.
The EMSIS command panel is organized according to Figure 1. It uses six (80 mm version) or five
(3.5" screen version) small push buttons to manipulate the user interface. Additionally, it has SD card slot
for software, maps and data updates.
Here is a brief description of individual items:
1. The up arrow button is used to move the menu selection, to change a value or a letter within active
control or some other page special function.
2. The check button confirms selection and can be also viewed as an OK button.
3. The down arrow button does the same as the up arrow button, just in a reverse direction.
4. The power ON/OFF button is normally not used. However on some EMSIS instruments, it is used
to turn the instrument on/off.
Note that 3.5" screen EMSIS does not have the power ON/OFF button.
5. The cross button serves as the close command and can be also viewed as cancel button.
6. The page selector button is used to switch between pages (screens).
7. SD card slot is used for software, maps and data updates.
primary flight display (PFD),
engine monitoring system (EMS).
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