Bendix/King by Honeywell KFD 840

Saturday, September 05, 2009 at 08:00 AM ET

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Bendix/King by Honeywell **KFD 840
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Key Takeaways:

The Bendix/King KFD 840 is a value-priced retrofit primary flight display offering advanced situational awareness and solid-state ADAHRS.
It provides seamless compatibility with popular existing navigators like the Garmin GNS 430 and GNS 530, allowing pilots to retain their current systems.
The system clearly displays pertinent flight data and includes practical features such as a weight and balance calculator and a customizable paperless checklist.
Pilots benefit from enhanced flight management tools like multiple navigation pointers, airspeed/altitude bugs, and a minimums window.

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The KFD 840 is a value-priced retrofit primary flight display from Bendix/King that gives pilots a great piece of glass, solid-state ADAHRS and outstanding situational awareness while letting them keep their existing navigator; to that end, the KFD 840 is designed to be compatible with the popular Garmin GNS 430 and GNS 530 navigators.

The KFD 840 has a no-nonsense approach to its job and displays all the pertinent flight data in a clear and concise way.

A weight and balance calculator makes loading calculations easy and quick.

Multiple nav pointers, airspeed and altitude bugs and even a minimums window help the pilot keep track of important targets.

A customizable checklist makes that important task paperless.

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