Garmin Flight Deck 100 Marine Instruments User Manual


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Embraer Prodigy
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Flight Deck 100 Pilot’s Guide
190-00728-04 Rev. A
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FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS
2.3 PFD ANNUNCIATIONS AND ALERTING FUNCTIONS
The following annunciations and alertingfunctionsaredisplayedonthePFD.RefertoAppendixAformore
information on alerts and annunciations.
PRODIGY
®
SYSTEM ANNUNCIATIONS
The System Messages Window conveys messages to the flight crew regarding problems with the Prodigy
®
System. When a new message is issued, the MSGSoftkeyashestoalerttheightcrew.Itcontinuestoash
untilselected,whichopenstheSystemMessagesWindowandacknowledgesthemessage(s)whichinitiated
the flashing. When the window is open, messages for which the trigger conditions no longer exist turn gray.
Messages generated while the window is open are not automatically displayed, but cause the MSGSoftkeyto
begin flashing again. Pressing the MSGSoftkeywhiletheSystemMessagesWindowisopenclosesthewindow,
unless the MSGSoftkeyisashing.
Critical values generated by redundant sensors are monitored by comparators. If differences in the sensors
exceed a specified amount, the Comparator Window appears in the upper right corner of the PFD and the
discrepancy is annunciated in the Comparator Window as a MISCOMP (miscompare). If one or both of the
sensedvaluesareunavailable,itisannunciatedasaNOCOMP(nocompare).
Reversionary sensor selection is annunciated in a window on the right side of the PFD. These annunciations
reflect reversionary sensors selected on one or both PFDs. Pressing the SENSORSoftkeyaccessestheADC1,
ADC2, ADCSTBY, AHRS1, AHRS2, and ATTSTBYsoftkeys.Thesesoftkeysallowswitchingofthesensors
being viewed oneach PFD.  With certain typesof sensor failures, thesystem may make sensorselections
automatically. The GPS sensor cannot be switched manually.
Reversionary
Sensor
Window
Comparator
Window
Messages
Window
Figure 2-35 Prodigy Alerting System
Softkey
Annunciation
Annunciation
Window
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