M5 Flashcards
EIS stands for?
Electronic Instrument System
What are the advantages that make them superior to analogue meters?
- Variability and Variety
- Coloured Displays
Calculations in the system are made by ____
CPUs
The interconnection between the electronic units is realized by ____
Digital data buses
Data filtered: Important data is ________
Accentuated
Data filtered: temporarily unimportant is _____
Suppressed
What are the components of a typical Electronic Instrument System?
•Display computers
•Display unit
•Control panels
It receives various inputs from many aircraft systems and send these data to the Displays.
Display computers
What are the inputs in Display Computer?
•Navigation data (Digital)
•Auto Flight System data (Digital)
•Engine data (Digital)
•Data from various aircraft system (Digital and Analogue)
Large aircraft have a third display computer for what?
Redundancy
EFIS
Electronic Flight Instrument System
It is a part of the Electronic Instrument System and show navigation data.
Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS)
ND
Navigation Display
It is used to select the system which appropriate to be monitored
Control panel
Display are mainly used for two purposes:
• Navigation
• Information about the aircraft
There are 3 generation of display units:
- Early 80s simple cathode ray tube
- Late 80s display units
- Since the 90s LCD display units
The navigation data and the information about the activities of the auto flight system are displayed on the _____
Electronic Flight Instrument
What are the 2 display unit for pilot?
• Primary Flight Display (PFD)
• Navigation Display
What are the data that shows in the display units?
- engine data
- some data from aircraft system like aircondition system, hydraulic system and some others
It also show on one of the display units?
Alerts from various aircraft system if something is out of limit
What are the advantages that makes electronic display devices superior to analog meters?
Variability and Variety & Coloured Display
It is a part of the Electronic Instrument System or ElS and shows navigation data?
EFIS(Electronic Flight Instrument System.)
What are the two groups of indicators that could be assigned in the cockpit?
Flight Surveillance and Aircraft Surveillance
Indicators display that represent the look ahead?
Primary Flight Display(PFD)
Indicators display that represent look from above?
Navigation Display(ND)
Aircraft surveillance consists of
surface indicators and engine surveillance.
Indication System for Aircraft Surveillance used in Boeing is
ElCAS(Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System)
Indication System for Aircraft Surveillance used in Airbus is
ECAM(Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor).
Part of a computer that execute calculation
CPU
ALU is section of CPU that execute calculation
AIRBUS- IN CASE OF COMPUTER FAILURE OR FAILS THE INDICATION CHANGES?
DIAGONAL WHITE LINE OR WHITE LINE
BOEING-IN CASE OF COMPUTER FAILURE OR FAILS THE INDICATION CHANGES?
SCREEN TURNS DARK OFF POSITION IS NOT AVAILABLE
(series) whenever there is 0 in the input, the output always 0.
AND gate
(parallel) whenever there is 1 at the input, the output is always 1.
OR gate
(series) whenever there is 0 at the input, the output is always 1.
NAND gate
(parallel) whenever there is 1 at the input, the output is always 0.
NOR gate
like inputs, the output is always 0.
Exclusive OR
What do we call the bar above the letter or number?
Negation
When EPROM is exposed to
,the memory will be erased.
UV light
T or F : Electricity can transmit signal.
True
It means all devices and components that are required to pass binary data in digital systems.
Hardware
Smallest amount of information that is possible. A digit is also called?
Bit
Keep their information even if the power supply is switched off
READ ONLY MEMORY (ROM)
A byte consist of
8 bits
a lot of information is given in the way we normally can see hear or feel
Analogue
are signals which have correlated amplitude for each value in a given moment. The number of values is nonfinite within the technical limits.
Analogue Signal
example of analogue signal
Temperature
Transistors and operational amplifiers are?
Active components
Resistors and capacitors are
Passive components
A computer that collects data from various places, processes it, and formats it for display can be called.
Informational Comp
Example of INFO. COMPUTER
ECAM&EICAS
computer which may used for source of information or data
Reference comp
Computer system that measures static pressure total pressure and air temperature.
Air data comp
Failure may cause a crash, error, or loss of critical function required to safely fly and land aircraft.
Level A, Catastrophic
Failure has no impact on safety, aircraft operation, or crew workload.
Level E, No effect.
to avoid signal reflection Located at far end of the cable
Termination Resistor
*Uses a DC-Free Bi-phase-Signal. Bits are transmitted using Harvard Bi-phase layout.
*Deals with data transmission between DFDAU AND DFDR
Arinc 717
How many receiver in Arinc 429?
20 receivers
Aircraft Data Communication Network (ADCN) subscriber communicate each other through the ADCN via what?
afdx switches and afdx harnesses
Since logic works with 0 and 1, only these number are used. The binary numbering system also uses 0 and 1 only, so it is ____
Used for calculation
If the computer use 0 and 1 and binary system also use 0 and 1. 0 and 1 are used for what?
Calculation