How to - Use the Multi Function Display (MFD) & Keyboard Cursor and Control Unit (KCCU)

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The Flight Management Guidance and Envelope System (FMGES) provides predictions of flight time, mileage, speed, economy profiles, and altitude. It reduces cockpit workload, improves efficiency, and eliminates many routine operations generally performed by the flight crew.

The pilots use the two MFDs to enter or modify data required by the FMGES via the KCCUs.

 

Keyboard Cursor and Control Unit (KCCU)

The KCCU is used to enter and modify data via the keyboard and various buttons (1 to 5). MFD pages can be accessed directly as well by pressing any of the MFD shortcut keys (6 to 13). 

1. Keyboard 2. Backspace 3. Enter 4. Clear 5. Escape 6. Ref (Access Aircraft Status page)

7. Direct to page 8. Performance page 9. Fuel prediction page 10. Init page 11. Secondary Index page 12. Flight Plan page 13. Navigation Aids page

Multi Function Display (MFD)

 

The MFD contains several pages which can be accessed in various ways. At the top of the MFD we have the Menu (1). The main FMS pages can be accessed by selecting an option from the drop down menu (2). The KCCU also has direct access keys to certain pages. Pressing REF (3) will open the ACFT STATUS page while the cluster in (4) opens 7 other pages.

Some pages have multiple pages contained within, these are called “Panels” (5) and can be accessed by present on the relevant header.

Many buttons are present on each page, in this example pressing the INIT button (6) will change to the INIT page.

As soon as your mouse is within the MFD screen boundaries the cursor symbol will become active (7). Use your mouse to click on menus, panels, buttons and fields that require information to be inserted.

 

For more information, please refer to the Aircraft Systems section of the included manual.