Description
Overview
- TACAN unit used in conjunction with related distance and navigation indicators to provide distance, bearing, groundspeed and time-to-station information with respect to a selected TACAN or VORTAC ground station
- Remote mounted 252 channel unit
- Solid state transmitter and large scale integrated circuit (LSI) technology
- 18-33 VDC power input
- All tuning done electronically with single crystal digital frequency synthesizer
- Channel selection is controlled by serial digital data stream fed from the KDI-572 or KDI-574 DME indicators
- Generates synthesized VOR composite output when a bearing signal has been acquired
- TACAN VOR composite signal may interface with converter-driven VOR instruments or area nav system such as the KNS-81 (-30/34)
- Incorporates self test mode used to verify range and bearing computation
- May be tuned by KFS-579A NAV/TACAN control or various RNAV receivers, nav controls
