All Flashcards
According to Newton’s Second Law of Motion, the acceleration can be calculated as?
a=F/M
- GPS minimum number of satellite to calculate the A/C latitude, longitude and altitude
4
It is the lowest layer, surrounding the surface of the Earth?
Troposphere
It displays the compass and indications from radio navigation systems?
ans. HSI (Horizontal Situation Indicator)
What is the aural message warning of MODE 3 function?
ans. “DON’T SINK”
the component where you make frequency selections for the VHF and HF radio communication system?
RMP (Radio Management Panel)
During the 5 minutes of the alignment, the IRS performs an activity called?
ans. Levelling
What is the aural callout when the airplane descends through the decision height altitude set on the EFIS control Panels?
“Minimums”, “Minimums, minimums”, “Decision Height”
CDSS (COCKPIT DOOR SURVELANCE SYSTEM) components
3Cameras, 1CDSS Controller and display
ICAO chart
IFR & VFR
Translate air data into electrical data
ADIRU (AIR DATA INERTIAL REFERENCE UNIT)
What system isused when the signal of 2AP channels for the same axis are permanently compared to each other and when a certain signal difference is exceeded, both AP disengage completely
FAIL PASSIVE
Radio Waves travel differently depending on the frequency?
Wave Propagation
Is the direction from the aircraft position to an object, for example a ground station?
BRG (Bearing)
In VOR, what do you call to the Transmitting courses of the ground stations?
RADIALS
It provides lateral and vertical position data necessary to put the aircraft on the runway for approach?
ILS (Instrument Landing System)
Different Landing Categories
Category 1 - 800m, 200ft
Category 2 - 400m, 100ft
Category 3 - less than 200m, below 100ft
Is a data link communication system which can transfer messages and data between the aircraft and the ground?
ACARS (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System)
ATC Emergency code for Aircraft is in an emergency?
7700
ATC emergency code for aircraft hijack?
7500
ATC emergency code for aircraft failure
7600
4 types of traffic on TCAS
TA, RA, PA and OTHERS
TCAS display indication
PFD and ND
ATC MODE A is for identification, C for Barometric altitude and S for selective
True about OLAN (onboard local area network)
Uses fiber optic communication network
Emergency antenna
SATCOM
Designed to help the cockpit crew to identify a person requesting entrance to the cockpit and to survey the doors 1 hidden cross section via video camera observation
CDSS (Cockpit Door Surveilance System)
Reduces the workload for the pilots by controlling the engine power automatically, this automatically control the thrust of the engines to the required value.
auto throttle system
Poor weather Landing:
Ans. Category 2
Category 1 :needs800m of the runway, Height of 200ft
Category 2: needs 400m of the runway, height of 100ft
Category 3: less than 200m
ADF (Automatic direction finder) Antenna that receive morse code
Sense antenna
Used for accident investigation
ELT (emergency locator transmitter) and CVR (cockpit voice recorder)
Indicated altitude is equal to the true altitude if the pressure is 1013hPa
EQUAL
Location of VOR (Veryhigh frequency Omnidirectional Range) antenna
Tip of Vertical Stabilizer
The direction in which an aircraft is moving over the Earth
TRACK
Qualities of Fibre Optics
• Carry more data than wire buses
• weigh less than wired buses,
• Electromagnetic radiation has no effect to the data
Compares the actual angle of attack from the alpha vane with aircraft specific alpha max would trigger the warning
stall warning system
Parameters of FANS (Future Air Navigation System) configurations
2 attention getters, DCDU, ATSU, MCDU
ACARS transmit from
VHF 3 AND SATCOM
Meaning of ACMS
AIRCRAFT CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM
Meaning of ATIMS
AIR TRAFFIC AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Procedure when the PFD of the captain is faulty?
manually change the display of the PFD display to ND(navigation display) by using the inboard display selector knob and selecting PFD to show the display of PFD
How many hours does a flight data recorder can store?
25 HOURS
Measures vertical distance from aircraft to the ground
Radio Altimeter
Databus to the flight recorder for logging flight data
ARINC 717
What is the Autothrottle Computer?
TCC (Thrust Control Computer)
Speed Trim system?
Speed Stability
How many frequencies does the ELT transmit on the ground?
3
When the pilot is testing the microphone what is your basis?
1 Hz tone
What transmitter have a tuning circuit
Receiver
Difference between track and heading
Drift
Where the nose of the aircraft is pointing
HEADING
The direction in which an aircraft is moving over the Earth?
TRACK
V-Bar used
For roll and pitch at same the time
1 way transmission
Simplex
Call out for desicion height
Minimums
Transmits an engine report automatically during each flight and whenever an engine problem is detected
ACMS (Aircraft Condition Monitoring system)
Enables datalink communication and exchange of complex data
ATIMS (Air Traffic and Information Management System)
What do we call the data bus that is connected to the DEU A
Topline
Third auto pilot can decide which is the wrong signal and can disengage the auto-pilot with a failure?
Fail Operation
Compares the actual attitude of the aircraft and the commanded attitude
Inner loop
Comparison between the desired path and actual path
Outer loop
Override device in case a failure in the system to disengage the autopilot
Adjust Slip Clutch
Related to passenger system function
DEU A
Which of the following is NOT true:
Difference between track and heading is variation
It makes the navigation and performance calculations for optimum flight performance
FMS (Flight management system)
What is the Auto-throttle Computer
TCC (Thrust Control Computer)
What is the Auto-throttle Computer
TCC (Thrust Control Computer)
Warning on TCAS
RA only (Resolution Advisory)
Databus to the flight recorder for logging flight data
ARINC 717
Common ethernet bus interconnection for aircraft data network
ARINC 629
Can Supply data upto 20 receivers
ARINC 429
containing cards that generate visible and audible flight deck warnings.
MAWEA (Modularized Avionics Warning Electronic Assembly)
Highest priority of Passenger Address
Input from cockpit crew
Is a Fibre Optic communication network. It moves digital data between LRU
OLAN (Onboard Local Area Network)
