Lesson 18: Electronic Displays Flashcards
What are the display requirements?
Viewing Angle
Resolution
Variable brightness/contrast
Size
What is the viewing angle?
60 horziontal
35 vertical
What are the 2 display technologies?
CRT
AMLCD
What are the advantages of video displays?
Less maintenance
Less weight
Interchangeable displays
Less pilot workload
What are the function of the Electronic Instrument System?
EFIS
EICAS
PFD and MFD are part of what system?
EFIS
Which part of EFIS deals with weather. checklists, tube redundancy?
MFD
What does EFIS PFD deal with?
EADI
EHSI
This system displays engine instruments and warning messages for the crew?
EICAS
True or False,
Weather radar can be available on the EHSI
True
PFD includes what?
Attitude Airspeed Vertical Speed Nav TCAS resolution advisories
MFD includes what?
Nav maps
Weather radar
TCAS traffic
TCAS maintenace data
EICAS includes what?
Critical engine
System status data recording and display
What are synoptic pages?
Graphical depiction of aircraft systems
What are the system control panels?
Display Control
Source Selector
Display Reversion Switch
EICAS Control
What does the DISPLAY CONTROL panel do?
Controls the onside PFD/MFD
If you want to select alternate sources of data fro critical systems, which panel do you go to?
SOURCE SELECTOR
What does the DISPLAY REVERSION SWITCH panel do?
Disables MFD and selects PFD or EICAS
This panel selects the synoptic pages
EICAS CONTROL PANEL
If a DISPLAY FAILURE is detected, what happens?
System goes into REVERSIONARY mode, priority given to CONTROL function
If EFIS completely fails, what are we left with?
Attitude indicator
Air Data
powered by battery bus
If we MANUALLY select REV MODE, what happens?
Includes EICAS on both PFDs
