Flight Instruments

Question 1

Pitot Static

Answer 1

Consist of the pitot tube and static port. Responsible for operation of the airspeed indicator, altimeter, and vertical speed indicator

Question 2

Gyroscopic Instruments

Answer 2

Consists of the heading indicator, attitude indicator, and turn-slip indicator. Two fundamental properties of gyroscopic action are rigidity in space and precession.

Question 3

Rigidity in space

Answer 3

Principle that a gyroscope remains in a fixed position in the plane in which it is spinning.

Question 4

Precession

Answer 4

The tilting or turning of a gyro in response to a deflective force. Allows for the gyro to determine a rate.

Question 5

AHRS (Altitude and Heading Reference System)

Answer 5

Replaced free spinning gyros with solid-state laser systems that are capable of flight at any attitude without tumbling.

Sends attitude information the the PFD

Question 6

Magnetometer

Answer 6

Senses the earths lines of magnetic flux. The information is processed in the AHRS system and sent the the PFD.