BendixKing, part of the Honeywell group, is well known to many pilots flying General Aviation aircrafts. Its long history started with two companies Bendix Corporation (setup by Vincent Hugo Bendix) and King Radio Corporation (setup by Ed King), being combined in 1983 to form the renowned BendixKing brand of avionics.
One of the most known avionics systems they produced was the KFC 250 Bendix/King Flight Control System.
The components of the KFC 250 are mostly electro mechanical build and very difficult, even almost impossible, to simulate in hardware. Still many GA aircraft are flying around with the KFC 250 and pilot training devices are required for them.
For sim producers that either means using the real components (that are very expensive) in their sims, or using software simulated components.
At FlightAhead we developed high fidelity software simulated versions of the main KFC 250 components. They can run as application in Microsoft Windows on PC, or in Linux on Raspberry Pi.
Data can be send via UDP LAN packets from external applications to set all of the different parameters of the FlightAhead components. Standard plugins for X-Plane are available to feed the components with X-Plane data.
KCI 310
Flight Command Indicator
- Aircraft attitude (Pitch & Roll)
- Turn indicator
- Flight Director (Yellow Needles)
- Glideslope and Localizer deviation
- VNAV deviation
- Failure flags
KPI 552
Pictorial Navigation Indicator
- Compass rose
- Course select bug
- NAV radio LOC/VOR CDI
- Glideslope deviation
- ADF / VOR bearing indicator
- Failure flags
KAS 297
Altitude Selector
- Selected altitude setting
- Altitude mode arm
- Altitude alert
KFC 250 in real aircraft
Below you see as an example a Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90SE in which the KFC 250 avionics system is used. On the pilot side you recognize the KCI 310, KPI 552 and the KAS 297.
Photo’s from Premier Jet Aviation (https://jetav.com/hawker-beechcraft-king-air-c90se-specs-and-description/)