IFD540 Touch Screen FMS/GPS/NAV/COMAvidyne’s IFD540 FMS/GPS/NAV/COM combines the best Flight Management System available, with a multi-channel digital VHF radio, in an easy-to-use, plug & play design. Navigation made simple.
Easy Direct-To NavigationFor many flights, Direct-To provides the easiest and most efficient way to navigate to your destination or to a given waypoint. The IFD540 provides Direct-To operation that will be familiar to anyone flying with previous generation GPS navigators, except now you also have the option of touch screen data entry.
Flight Planning Made SimpleIn addition to basic Direct-To navigation, entering an IFR flight plan is easier than ever with the IFD540. Extensive testing and customer experience have proven that the IFD540 user interface reduces button pushes and knob twists required with previous navigators by 50%-75% or more. Drop-down menus are logically placed to provide touch-to-select data entry of airways, exit waypoints, destinations, and approach procedures.
A pop-up QWERTY-style keyboard automatically appears when an alpha-numeric data field is highlighted, making data entry as familiar to you as your computer or smart phone. With GeoFill, the IFD540 will virtually always guess accurately your next waypoint after only entering one or two letters.
Graphical Flight Plan EditingWith the IFD540’s graphical flight planning capability, you can easily edit your flight plan with the touch of the screen. The IFD540’s ‘rubber banding,’ feature allows you to stretch any leg in the flight plan to make a deviation for weather or to accommodate an amendment from ATC.
FMS Preview™Avidyne’s exclusive FMS Preview™ is a powerful flight planning feature that makes it even more intuitive to load flight plans by showing you a real-time graphical depiction of each proposed modification in cyan prior to selection. FMS Preview makes it easy to visualize before selecting a desired waypoint, airway, hold or hold geometry, Direct-To, approach, approach transition and any other terminal procedures. In dual IFD540 installations, the dual-databus architecture allows pilots to enter the flightplan on one IFD540 while seeing the FMS Preview on the other.
Easy Loading of ApproachesThe dedicated PROC (Procedure) button allows you to quickly load approaches at your destination airport by selecting from the pop-up list. FMS Preview allows you to view each of the available approaches graphically prior to selection. Unlike previous-generation navigators, the IFD540 allows you to quickly load any destination airports and multiple approaches into your flight plan.
FMSVectors™ - Fly the Magenta LineThe unique Nav Source knob in the upper right corner allows you to select between GPS, VLOC (i.e. VHF NAV), or HDG as the output signal source from the IFD540 to the moving map and to some autopilots. It is also used to slew and sync the course or heading. GPS is the standard operating mode, providing roll steering commands to the autopilot, and VLOC is used when flying a VOR or ILS/Localizer. Heading mode (HDG), also known as FMS Vectors, is Avidyne’s powerful new guidance tool for GPS/FMS navigation. In legacy navigators the Vectors-to-Final approach transition was a separate procedure that the pilot performed by suspending the flight plan sequencing. With the IFD540, the pilot remains flying the FMS while getting ATC vectors for the final. This is achieved by adjusting the Nav Source Heading with the autopilot remaining coupled to the FMS the whole time. The FMS uses this pilot-set heading and presents a dashed magenta line on the map that is the projected ground track compensated for winds. With this vectors line and the FMS, you can clearly visualize the final approach course and how the aircraft is going to intercept it. This line is drawn as a curved intercept to final if you are "Armed" to intercept and it is only a single button press to Disarm or Arm Intercept according to whether ATC has given approval to "intercept final" or not. The easily-modified FMS Vectors line gives the pilot GPS/FMS guidance for the entire route of flight, from 200 AGL at departure to 200 AGL at arrival, without the need to suspend or interrupt guidance to the autopilot, enhancing safety and eliminating “modes’ confusion. The pilot simply “flies the magenta line” all the time. Continue reading...Avidyne IFD540Overview The Power of Hybrid TouchNavigation made simple.Powerful, yet simple.Dual IFD540 ConfigurationsProduct ComparisonSpecificationsIFD540.comIFD540 BrochureIFD540 VideosIFD540 FAQs (PDF)Retail Price List (PDF)
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