The EFS 40/50 Electronic Flight Instrument System for the Pilatus PC12 aircraft. The Bendix/King EFS 50 is a full-function 5-inch EFIS. The EADI, EHSI and MFD displays are all fully interchangeable ED 551A's. The typical configuration for the Pilatus PC12 consists of 2 Display Units (DU), One Symbol Generator (SG) and one EFIS Control Panel (ECP). The Pilot operates the EFS 40/50 Display Units through an EFIS Control Panel. Available as a separate unit or integrated with the EFS 40 EHSI. |
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COMPOSITE ENROUTE - COMPOSITE APPROACH
Composite Enroute Mode
Composite Modes are reversionary displays typically used in
the event of a hardware
outage or when standard presentations are not available. The differences between
the
composite and standard Enroute formats include:
Note: For this version of the panel, we use a combination enroute and approach format view
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TEST - MAINTENANCE AND CONFIGURATION
This option is not implemented in this version of the panel.
THE PROPER ATTITUDE
Precision Approach Mode
For EADI applications, there are two normal, two composite and three ancillary formats that are available. The normal formats, Enroute and Precision Approach, depict the typical displays that would be seen during Flight. Information normally shown in Enroute Format (as seen above) includes attitude, heading, flight director command bars, autopilot flight director mode annunciation, fast slow indicator, rate of turn and inclinometer along with a number of variants. The Precision Approach format generally depicts most of the same information as found in the Enroute mode with the following differences.
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THE TOTAL PICTURE - EHSI
In addition to this, all comparators are enabled, and a
full array of variants similar to that
of the Enroute Mode shown above is available.