Sample Trip; Pre-Departure; Enroute - Honeywell KLN 900s Pilot's Manual

3.18 SAMPLE TRIP

Just to make sure you are ready to use the KLN 900 for
navigation, let's go through a sample trip to illustrate
many of the features you have learned to use in this sec-
tion of the Pilot's Guide. Our trip will be from Adams field
(KLIT) in Little Rock, Arkansas to Mueller Municipal air-
port (KAUS) in Austin, Texas. The weather is perfect and
you decide to make the trip VFR and fly direct to Austin.

3.18.1 Pre-Departure

1. Apply power to the KLN 900 by pushing the
power/brightness knob to the "in" position.
2. When the screen warms up, adjust the brightness to
the desired level by rotating the power/brightness
knob.
3. Verify that the information on the Self Test page is cor-
rect, including the time and date. Enter the altimeter
baro setting. Position the cursor over APPROVE?
and press E to approve the Self Test page.
4. Read the Database page.
Database page by pressing E.
5. A blank NAV 2 page is now displayed on the left side
on the screen. The APT 4 page for Adams field
(KLIT), which shows the communications frequencies,
is now displayed on the right side of the screen since
KLIT was the active waypoint when you last removed
power from the KLN 900. The APT 4 page indicates
that the ATIS frequency is 125.65 MHz, the pre-taxi
clearance delivery frequency is 118.95 MHz, the
ground control frequency is 121.90 MHz, and the
tower frequency is 118.70 MHz. After listening to
ATIS, you contact clearance delivery for your clear-
ance out of the Little Rock Class C airspace. Next,
you give ground control a call and receive your taxi
clearance.
6. By this time the KLN 900 has reached a NAV ready
status. You know this because the NAV 2 page is
now showing a valid present position, in this case 3.8
nautical miles on the 320 degree radial from Little
Rock (LIT) VOR.
7. Press D to bring up the Direct To page on the left
side. Use the two left knobs to enter the identifier of
Mueller Municipal airport (KAUS) by using the left
inner knob to select the characters and the left outer
knob to move the flashing part of the cursor to the
desired cursor location.
8. Press E to bring up the APT 1 waypoint page for
Mueller Municipal airport on the right side.
Acknowledge the
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9. Press E again to approve the waypoint page. The
NAV 1 page is now displayed on the right side of the
screen while the NAV 2 page returns to the left side.
The NAV 1 page indicates it is 384 nautical miles to
Austin and that the bearing is 225 degrees. After
take-off, the NAV 1 page will also display ground-
speed and estimated time enroute.
10.You now decide to view the Super NAV 1 page.
Rotate the left inner knob to select the NAV 1 page.

3.18.2 Enroute

1. You depart from runway 36 at Little Rock and are told
to "maintain runway heading". After several radar vec-
tors for traffic avoidance you are finally cleared on
course. The D-Bar indicates that the radar vectors
have taken you north of the original course and you
decide to proceed Direct To Austin from your present
position. To recenter the D-Bar, press D, and then
press E.
2. In order to determine the minimum enroute safe alti-
tude (ESA) for the flight you view the NAV 3 page. It
indicates an ESA of 4300 feet for the trip and mini-
mum safe altitude for your present position of 3400
feet.
3. After departure control has directed "squawk 1200,
frequency change approved", you decide it would be a
good idea to obtain VFR flight following. To obtain the
frequency for Center, select the Other 2 page (OTH
2). It indicates that for your position, you should be
able to contact Memphis Center on 118.85 MHz.
4. You've only flown about 100 nautical miles, but you
begin wondering where you would go if an engine
suddenly started running rough. You decide to use
the KLN 900 to determine where the nearest airports
are from your present location. To view the nearest
airports press N. The nearest airport is Hope
Municipal (M18) which is eight nautical miles from
your position on a bearing to the airport of 11 degrees.
You now rotate the right inner knob to view the other
APT pages for Hope Municipal. You learn, for exam-
ple, that it is located in Hope, Arkansas, and has two
hard surface runways that are each 5500 feet in
length. By pulling the right inner knob to the "out"
position, you may now scan clockwise through the
remaining eight airports in the nearest airport list.
5. For the majority of the enroute portion of the flight you
select, the Super NAV 5 page's moving map display.
You do this by selecting NAV 5 on both sides of the
screen. Pressing the right C brings up the waypoint
display menu on the right side of the screen. You
then use the right knobs to select APT: ON so that
nearby airports are shown on the moving map display.
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