Aircraft general Flashcards
External dimension.
Wingspan without Sharklets?
Wingspan with Sharklets?
Without = 34.10m
With Sharklets = 35.80m
External dimensions
Wingspan without sharklets
34.1m
External dimensions
Height
Length
Height = 11.76m
Length = 37.57m
Unpressurised areas
- Radome
- Nose Gear Bay
- Air Condition Comp
- Main Gear Bay
- Tail Cone
- Vertical Stab
[Note: cargo bays are all pressurised]
Turning radius required on runway (180 degrees)? How much extra for Sharklets?
- Wing tip biggest arc
- 180 degree turn - 22.8m
- Sharklets add another 5% 0.85m
Pilots Field of View from flight deck?
Vertical? Lateral?
- Nose down 20 degrees missing therefore cannot see first 12.54m
- You can see the wing tips
Emergency equipment on flight deck
- Fire extinguishers
- EMK
- Oxygen
- Escape Ropes
- Goggles
- Torches
- Lifejackets
- Axe
- Gloves
Portable oxygen system (Smoke Hood).
Max time for oxygen use?
How do you know when serviceable?
- 15 mins maximum
- Serviceable when clamp is secure / yellow band partially in tact
Doors and Emergency Exits
A) How many cabin doors?
B) how many over wing emergency exits
C) how many cargo doors?
D) how many avionics doors?
A) How many cabin doors? 4
B) how many over wing emergency exit? 4
C) how many cargo doors? 3 (FWD, AFT and BULK)
D) how many avionics doors? 1 or 4 (need to check)
Cockpit door locking system.
What happens when emergency code entered?
- “Open” yellow warning light flashes on pedestal
- Continuous tone
Cockpit door locking system.
What happens when normal entry code entered?
- Short tone - 3 seconds
- Buzzer
- FD to visually check
- Press and hold unlock switch
Exterior lighting. What does a blue light mean if lit next to a normal exterior light?
Bulb is coming close to end of life
Exterior lights. Landing lights - what do the 3 positions do?
- Retract = off and stowed
- Off = off and extended
- On = on and extended
Exterior lights. Strobes - what does the “auto” position do?
- They activate when airborne (when landing gear is no longer depressed on the runway)
Internal Lighting.
EMER EXIT LT button selected “ARM” as per SOP. What does this do?
The emergency exit lights (e.g exit signs I. Cabin) will illuminate if there is a loss of power.
Note: CC can also select emergency lights through their FAP
Internal lights.
No smoking button - SOP is to keep in “AUTO”. What does auto do?
The lights come on when the aircraft is no longer clean (e.g. just before landing / takeoff)
Internal lights.
No smoking switch - SOP is to keep in “AUTO”. What does auto do?
The lights come on when the aircraft is no longer clean (e.g. just before landing / takeoff)
Internal lights. When will all cabin signs illuminate during pressurisation problem?
11,300 ft (plus or minus 350 ft)
Galley Area Call Panel lights?
- Pink - crew (P&Ps!)
- Blue - pax ()
- Steady Yellow - toilets (piss) (pax press button
- Flashing yellow - toilets (piss) (smoke alarm)
Water and Waste System. Where is it located and is it pressurised?
- Located - AFT Cargo
- Water tank is pressurised (using either air compressor or bleed air)
Used for water and toilet flush
Oxygen System.
How many oxygen bottles does the A320 have? How do you check oxygen level?
1 bottle.
Check via LOWER ECAM
OXY ECAM PAGE
what do the colours mean?
Green - all fine
Flashing Green - oxygen getting low (but fine)
Solid Amber - low oxygen caution
Amber half box - check FCOM limitations to check if able to depart
Oxygen. When are cabin masks auto deployed?
When cabin alt is above 14,000 - cabin masks are automatically deployed
Note: instructor said oxygen capacity is 15 mins (FCOM states 12 mins)
Electronic Instrument System.
How many DMCs are there? What do they each send data to?
DMC1 (for CAPT side PFD/ND. Also used for EWD and SD)
DMC2 (FO side PFD/ND)
DMC3 (Standby)
What computers are used to send master caution and master warning to the pilots?
master caution (amber) - via SDAC (System Data Acquisition Concentrator)
Master warning (red) - via FWC (Flight Warning Computer)
Speed tape:
- Blue triangle
- Magenta triangle
- Yellow arrow
- “F”
- “S”
- “Green dot”
- Blue triangle - selected speed tgt
- Magenta triangle - mgd speed tgt
- Yellow arrow - speed prediction over next 10 seconds
- “F” (first thing see after takeoff. Once passed - select flap up)
- “S” (Re takeoff. Once passed can select flap zero)
- “Green dot” (last thing see after takeoff off) (best L/D)
Normal law. Speed tape (low speed). Order from highest speed to lowest
- VLS
- Alpha Prot (visually shown by black and yellow) [Tiger Tail] (cannot enter with A/THR)
- V Alpha Floor (not visually shown)
- V Alpha Max (visually shown in red)
Normal Law Speed Tape. High Speed
Shown with black and red barber pole (bottom of pole is Vmax)
Within that barber pole is a green “=“ which indicates when over speed protection will activate (VMO plus 6kts)
PFD (how is track and heading displayed)
Track - green diamond
Heading - blue triangle
What triggers PFD discrepancy messages between Capt and FO?
If the difference between the two exceeds:
Attitude - 5 degrees
Heading - 5 degrees
Attitude - QNH greater than 250ft. STD greater than 500ft
Navigation Display. How is managed mode and heading mode shown on the ND (I.e showing you what has been selected/the autopilot and s following?
Managed - solid green
Selected - dotted green line
ECAM Control Panel buttons
- “CLR” - clears fault
- “STS” - Status page
- “RCL” - Recall (need to press and hold 3 seconds).
- “EMER CANC” [use to inhibit spurious alerts]
- “ALL” cycles through all of the different pages
- “T.O. CONFIG” - carries out a test as though you’re just about to take off.
ECAM procedure. What is CRAP? When do you do this?
Checklist
Reset
Additional Procedures
Done following ECAM actions and “STOP ECAM” call from PF
ECAM warning classifications
ADVISORY -
A) used to alert crew that system parameter approaching limit
B) no aural warning / master warning caution
C) affected parameter might flash/ pulse (even if green)
FAILURE LEVEL 1
A) loss of redundancy or system degradation.
B) No aural warning or master warning
C) Usually without procedure
FAILURE LEVEL 2
A) Serious failure but without any direct consequence to flight safety
B) single aural chime
C) master caution light
D) automatic call up of the relevant system page on the SD
FAILURE LEVEL 3
A) A failure that affects flight safety and requires immediate action
B) Red Caution
C) Continuous Repeititve Chime (could be words - e.g windshear, windshear, windshear
D) Automatic calls up relevant page of SD
Types of Failure?
- INDEPENDENT FAILURE
Only effects an isolated system or item without degrading other system or items.
Displayed Lower left of E/WD
- PRIMARY FAILURE
A failure of system or items which affects the use of other systems or items. May or may not have associated action item
Theses are “boxed” to identify it as a primary failure
- SECONDARY FAILURE
Failure of a system or items which resulted from a primary failure
Displayed on lower right of E/WD
ECAM - T.O Config Memo. When is this shown? Where is it displayed?
When - appears 2 mins after second engine start or when “T.O CONFIG” is pressed with at least one engine running
Where displayed? Lower left E/WD
ECAM LDG MEMO
When shown?
Appears:
1) when below 2,000 RA; or
2) after go around, during approach - below 800ft
(note: disappears after touchdown and below 80kts)
What does a “LANDING LIGHT” ECAM memo indicate?
Any one of the landing lights are extended
Masks in the cabin. How does pulling down one of the masks impact the other masks?
Pulling down one mask automatically pressurises the other masks in that section
When is the status page displayed?
- When the last line of ECAM actions have been completed?
- When select Flap 1 / Config 1 (unless nothing wrong obviously!)
- Manually - by pressing STS button
