Engine Instrument System

Question 1

Many large high bypass turbine engine use what type of fuel control system

Answer 1

FADEC type

Question 2

What are the units in the engine fuel flow system?

Answer 2

transmitter and a indicator

Question 3

Where is the fuel flow transmitter located?

Answer 3

Mounted in the fuel line between the engine pump, and the carburetor

Question 4

What type of readout is indicated on a fuel flow system?

Answer 4

Calibrate in record fuel flow in pounds per hour

Question 5

What exactly does a mass fuel flow transmitter measured?

Answer 5

Density mass of the fuel that float through it

Question 6

What is the reason for monitoring the fuel flow?

Answer 6

Fuel consumption and fuel flow indication is to see the engine is operating at the correct fuel air mixture for a given power setting

Question 7

What does a manifold pressure gauge Indicate

Answer 7

Absolute pressure in the intake manifold

Question 8

What will be the effect of a broken manifold, pressure gauge line

Answer 8

Cause the gauge to indicate atmospheric pressure

Question 9

What does the engine tachometer indicate

Answer 9

Crankshaft rpm (engine, rpm)

Question 10

What is the most likely cause of oscillating tachometer

Answer 10

A kink in the cable

Question 11

What type of tachometer is used in multi engine aircraft

Answer 11

Alternating current tachometer generators

Question 12

Why are turbine engines tachometer designed to indicate

Answer 12

Percent of engine shaft rpm(engine rpm)

Question 13

What is the EPR on a turbine engine?

Answer 13

Ratio between turbine Discharge pressure to total inlet pressure.

Question 14

What is the electrical source for a cylinder head temperature gauge?

Answer 14

Thermocouple attached to the cylinder head

Question 15

Where is the carburetor air temperature bulb located?

Answer 15

In the air intake passage to the engine

Question 16

How can a turbine engine EGT be checked without operating the engine?

Answer 16

Buy, checking the resistance to the thermal couples in circuit

Question 17

What is the typical acceptable resistance of a cylinder head thermocouples cable?

Answer 17

2 to 8 ohms

Question 18

What directly controlled the manifold pressure

Answer 18

Engine rpm and throttle opening

Question 19

An engine equipped with fix pitch, what propeller controls both manifoldpressure and the engine rpm

Answer 19

Throttle control

Question 20

When checking the manifold pressure during engine operation in what position the prop control should be set

Answer 20

Low pitch

Question 21

What is the possible cause when a turbo prop engine oil pressure drop off severely and the oil supply remains?

Answer 21

Oil pressure transmitter or indicator malfunction