5.1 - Electronic Instruments

Question 1

What are the basic 6 flight instruments?

Answer 1

1. Airspeed Indicator
2. Gyro Horizon Indicator (now identified as Attitude Director Indicator)
3. Altimeter
4. Turn and Bank Indicator
5. Direction Indicator (now identified as Horizontal Situation Indicator)
6. Vertical Speed Indicator

Question 2

What are the Key Indicators in a Basic T?

Answer 2

1. Airspeed Indicator
2. Attitude Direction Indicator
3. Altimeter
4. Horizontal Situation Indicator

Question 3

What are the advantages of using EIS?

Answer 3

1. Offers more variability and variety
2. The displays are coloured
3. Important data is accentuated, temporarily unimportant data is suppressed
4. Fewer components are needed
5. All displays units for EIS are of the same type

Question 4

How is the required data transmitted digitally by ARINC 429 buses?

Answer 4

1. Via display data buses to CPU controlled CRT or LCD
2. Via digital data buses to a printer
3. In digital form to a transmitter

Question 5

How has problem of reading EIDS in the bright sunlight

Answer 5

Brighter more modern displays

Question 6

Where are the instruments, critical for safe flight, positioned in the cockpit

Answer 6

Panels are positioned in normal line of sight

Question 7

The reason why digital instruments have replaced analogue instruments is because digital instruments are

Answer 7

Clearly visible and information can be filtered