System Overview
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FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW
The Avidyne DFC100 autopilot supports the following functions:
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Flight Director
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Heading Capture/Hold
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NAV Tracking
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Vectors Mode
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VNAV Tracking
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Approach Mode (includes LOC, ILS, VOR, BC, LPV,
LNAV/VNAV, LNAV+V)
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Altitude Hold
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Altitude Capture
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Vertical Speed Hold
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Indicated Airspeed Mode
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Straight and Level
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Pilot Selectable Intercept Angles
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Control Wheel Steering (not available in all aircraft)
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Takeoff/Go Around (TO/GA) Mode (not available in all
aircraft)
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Speed-based Envelope Protection
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Full-time Envelope Alerting
NOTE
Envelope Protection vs. Envelope Alerting
There is a distinction between Envelope Protection
and Full-time Envelope Alerting. Envelope
Protection will result in active driving of the flight
control surfaces by the autopilot. Full-time
Envelope Alerting will only provide visual and aural
alerting but it is up to the pilot to manually make any
control surface changes.
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