Primus 1000

User Manual
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Carenado Proline 21 Overview
The Carenado Primus 1000 is integrated by differents
displays and control panels.
Primary Flight Display (PFD) Control Display Unit (CDU) Autopilot Controller (AP) Autopilot Controller(AP)
Multi Function Display (MFD) Display Controller (DC) Mode Selector (MS) MFD Controller (MFDC)

CDU

PFD

DC

MFDC

MFD

MS AP

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Primary Flight Display Altitude preselect

Flight Mode Anunciator

Altimeter

Airspeed Indicator

Altimeter Set

Radio Altimeter
Navigation Source

Vertical Speed
Indicator
Heading Indicator Ground Speed/EET

Altimeter
Calibration Knob

Standard Altimeter Button

Display Controller
Selects display features on de PFD. These include HSI formats,
navigation sources, weather radar, and bearing pointer selection

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Multi Function Display
The MFD shows basically the same information as PFD on the lower half, Flight Plan, traffic, weather information and
V-speeds selection.

Navigation map

Data set Altitude selector

MFD Menu

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Flight Guidance Panel

Vertical speed/
pitch selection
Heading Approach Vertical Vertical
Mode navigation Speed Half
Mode bank

Flight Ap Yaw
Nav Back Altitude level Master Damper
Mode Course Hold change

Control Display Unit

This panel is the center of the flight plan and guidance
system. Here’s where the flight plans are created, and
monitor the fuel management system, tune the radios
and navaids, view flight plan legs, view arrival data and
more.

Line select keys (LSK)

Scratch pad and

message line

Function Keys

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Basic Operation of the CDU.
Every time you type any text or numbers it will appear in the ScratchPad, then you may assign that text or
number using the desired Line Select Key (LSK). You may enter text using CDU or your PC keyboard.

CREATING A FLIGHT PLAN.

-Press the function key FPLN

-Type the origin airport and press the LSK ORIGIN and the same for DEST
-To set the route enter the waypoint of an airway in the “TO” field.
-Then press NEXT KEY to go to the next page, and enter the route name in “VIA” field and the destination
waypoint for the same route. The system will create all the legs for the specified route. If the waypoint is an
intersection you may use that waypoint to fly another route.
If you wish you may enter only the waypoints or airports for your route in the “TO” fields and the aircraft will fly
DIRECT from one waypoint to the other.

-Adding Departure and Arrival DEP/ARR

In this page you may select the desired Departure for your Origin Airport and the Arrival
for your Destination airport.
Press the DEP LSK and then select the desired departure and runway (IN THAT ORDER).
Press the ARR LSK and then select the desired approach and runway.

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Legs place

Function key to review your flight plan, pressing NEXT or PREV keys will move forward or backward pages on
your flight plan.

-INSERTING WAYPOINT
In your flight plan, just type the desired waypoint and then insert it in the location you want using the LSK.

-DELETING WAYPOINT
Press CLR DEL key and then using the LSK select which waypoint to Delete.

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Reviewing flight plan

When the word (VECTORS) appears in a flight plan you should expect ATC vectorial information, for this kind of
operation the Autopilot must be OFF.
In the MFD press the "MAP/PLAN" button to display the FPL, then, in the CDU press the "MFD ADV" button",
this way you can make a visual review for your flight plan, pressing NEXT or Previous waypoint will show
the specified waypoint in the MFD.

-SET FLIGHT LEVEL

To enter the altitude type “/” followed by the number, then enter using the LSK. You may enter the altitude in
feets or in Flight Level eg FL250.

In the LEGS page you may set the altitude for any waypoint, the format is /ALTD.

It’s important to note that the default altitude is 28000 feet for all waypoints that do not have altitude information
from the database.

Once airborne press NAV/VNAV button to engage autopilot.

The aircraft will now follow your lateral and vertical
flightplan.

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Other CDU Operations

-MSG PAGE
Pressing the MSG function button allow to see system
messages.

-PERF PAGE
Pressing the PERF function button allows to check
for fuel management data, such as on board fuel, fuel
flow, reserves, consumption, estimated time en route.
PERF menu has 3 pages, switch between these pages
using buttons NEXT/PREV.

-DIR PAGE
Pressing the DIR function button will show the nearest
airports to fly direct to it. Also you can type the
waypoint you want to flight direct to on the scratchpad
and activate it by pressing twice the upper left LSK

-IDX PAGE 1/2

Status Page- Show current database status

Pos Init- Shows the actual aircraft position data.

Arr Data- Shows data about the arrival, airport,

approach glide slope angle, Bearing, Frequencie and
threshold altitude.
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-TUN PAGE
Pressing TUN function button allow to tune
the radios for communications, navigation
and also transponder code.

-MFD MENU PAGE

The MFD MENU function button allows to
change which navigation data is showed in
the PFD and MFD, default view is Airports,
VOr’s, and waypoints. When the item is white
it’s not showing.

Navigraph Database
The system already include a Navigraph database,
updated up to 2016. If you’re suscribed to Navigraph
or you’re adding a new database you’ll see an update
window the first time you run the aircraft after updating
the database.
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Flight Plan creation example.
Let’s create from scratch a flight plan with the following
Characteristics.
KDTW (Detroit Metropolitan) to KMKC (Kansas
Downtown) with SID and STAR
complete ROUTE and a APPROACH as following.

KDTW R21L SID Fort Wayne 4 (FWA4) to FWA

via V55 to GIJ
via J146 to JOT
via J26 to LOAMY
via V10 to IRK
KMKC STAR Baymer Four (BQS4) transition IRK to
Approach GPS19 (GPS19)
Step by Step example.

In the initial page press the FPLN button to enter the ORIGIN and DESTINATION, in the Scratchpad enter the
desired route, in this case, KDTW to KMKC, from KDTW direct to FWA, then to GIJ via airway V55, then to JOT
via airway J146, to LOAMY via airway J26 finally to IRK via airway V10. Note that if in between two points (JOT
and LOAMY) of an airway are more waypoint they will be automacally added to the flight flight, is not necessary
to enter point by point.

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Once the route is finished it is time to select departure
at KDTW and arrival and approach in KMKC.
Press the button DEP ARR and select DEP, using the
LSK, and the KDTW Depart page will appear, in this
page we will select the SID FWA4 and then runway
22L on the right, press the DEP ARR button again and
this time select ARR, and in the KMKC Arrival page
we will select approach GPS to runway 19, using the
STAR BQS4 with transition at IRK.

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The finished flight plan will be as follows, pressing the LEGS buttons you may review the flight plan waypoint by
waypoint, to the right side you should to set the desired altitude for each waypoint, the altitudes constraints from
the database are automatically set for each waypoint, the database waypoints without constraints will be set as
default to 28000 ft. Note the cyan waypoints indicates that those waypoints belong to the missed approach.

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