M5 Flashcards

1
Q

EIS stands for?

A

Electronic Instrument System

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2
Q

What are the advantages that make them superior to analogue meters?

A
  • Variability and Variety
  • Coloured Displays
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3
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Calculations in the system are made by ____

A

CPUs

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4
Q

The interconnection between the electronic units is realized by ____

A

Digital data buses

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5
Q

Data filtered: Important data is ________

A

Accentuated

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6
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Data filtered: temporarily unimportant is _____

A

Suppressed

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7
Q

What are the components of a typical Electronic Instrument System?

A

•Display computers
•Display unit
•Control panels

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8
Q

It receives various inputs from many aircraft systems and send these data to the Displays.

A

Display computers

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9
Q

What are the inputs in Display Computer?

A

•Navigation data (Digital)
•Auto Flight System data (Digital)
•Engine data (Digital)
•Data from various aircraft system (Digital and Analogue)

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10
Q

Large aircraft have a third display computer for what?

A

Redundancy

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11
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EFIS

A

Electronic Flight Instrument System

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12
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It is a part of the Electronic Instrument System and show navigation data.

A

Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS)

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13
Q

ND

A

Navigation Display

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14
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It is used to select the system which appropriate to be monitored

A

Control panel

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15
Q

Display are mainly used for two purposes:

A

• Navigation
• Information about the aircraft

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16
Q

There are 3 generation of display units:

A
  • Early 80s simple cathode ray tube
  • Late 80s display units
  • Since the 90s LCD display units
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17
Q

The navigation data and the information about the activities of the auto flight system are displayed on the _____

A

Electronic Flight Instrument

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18
Q

What are the 2 display unit for pilot?

A

• Primary Flight Display (PFD)
• Navigation Display

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19
Q

What are the data that shows in the display units?

A
  • engine data
  • some data from aircraft system like aircondition system, hydraulic system and some others
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20
Q

It also show on one of the display units?

A

Alerts from various aircraft system if something is out of limit

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21
Q

What are the advantages that makes electronic display devices superior to analog meters?

A

Variability and Variety & Coloured Display

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22
Q

It is a part of the Electronic Instrument System or ElS and shows navigation data?

A

EFIS(Electronic Flight Instrument System.)

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23
Q

What are the two groups of indicators that could be assigned in the cockpit?

A

Flight Surveillance and Aircraft Surveillance

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24
Q

Indicators display that represent the look ahead?

A

Primary Flight Display(PFD)

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25
Q

Indicators display that represent look from above?

A

Navigation Display(ND)

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26
Q

Aircraft surveillance consists of

A

surface indicators and engine surveillance.

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27
Q

Indication System for Aircraft Surveillance used in Boeing is

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ElCAS(Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System)

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28
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Indication System for Aircraft Surveillance used in Airbus is

A

ECAM(Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor).

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29
Q

Part of a computer that execute calculation

A

CPU

ALU is section of CPU that execute calculation

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30
Q

AIRBUS- IN CASE OF COMPUTER FAILURE OR FAILS THE INDICATION CHANGES?

A

DIAGONAL WHITE LINE OR WHITE LINE

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31
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BOEING-IN CASE OF COMPUTER FAILURE OR FAILS THE INDICATION CHANGES?

A

SCREEN TURNS DARK OFF POSITION IS NOT AVAILABLE

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32
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(series) whenever there is 0 in the input, the output always 0.

A

AND gate

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33
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(parallel) whenever there is 1 at the input, the output is always 1.

A

OR gate

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34
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(series) whenever there is 0 at the input, the output is always 1.

A

NAND gate

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35
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(parallel) whenever there is 1 at the input, the output is always 0.

A

NOR gate

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36
Q

like inputs, the output is always 0.

A

Exclusive OR

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37
Q

What do we call the bar above the letter or number?

A

Negation

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38
Q

When EPROM is exposed to
,the memory will be erased.

A

UV light

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39
Q

T or F : Electricity can transmit signal.

A

True

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40
Q

It means all devices and components that are required to pass binary data in digital systems.

A

Hardware

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41
Q

Smallest amount of information that is possible. A digit is also called?

A

Bit

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42
Q

Keep their information even if the power supply is switched off

A

READ ONLY MEMORY (ROM)

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43
Q

A byte consist of

A

8 bits

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44
Q

a lot of information is given in the way we normally can see hear or feel

A

Analogue

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45
Q

are signals which have correlated amplitude for each value in a given moment. The number of values is nonfinite within the technical limits.

A

Analogue Signal

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46
Q

example of analogue signal

A

Temperature

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47
Q

Transistors and operational amplifiers are?

A

Active components

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48
Q

Resistors and capacitors are

A

Passive components

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49
Q

A computer that collects data from various places, processes it, and formats it for display can be called.

A

Informational Comp

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50
Q

Example of INFO. COMPUTER

A

ECAM&EICAS

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51
Q

computer which may used for source of information or data

A

Reference comp

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52
Q

Computer system that measures static pressure total pressure and air temperature.

A

Air data comp

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53
Q

Failure may cause a crash, error, or loss of critical function required to safely fly and land aircraft.

A

Level A, Catastrophic

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54
Q

Failure has no impact on safety, aircraft operation, or crew workload.

A

Level E, No effect.

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55
Q

to avoid signal reflection Located at far end of the cable

A

Termination Resistor

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56
Q

*Uses a DC-Free Bi-phase-Signal. Bits are transmitted using Harvard Bi-phase layout.
*Deals with data transmission between DFDAU AND DFDR

A

Arinc 717

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57
Q

How many receiver in Arinc 429?

A

20 receivers

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58
Q

Aircraft Data Communication Network (ADCN) subscriber communicate each other through the ADCN via what?

A

afdx switches and afdx harnesses

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59
Q

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 ____

A

Used for calculation

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60
Q

If the computer use 0 and 1 and binary system also use 0 and 1. 0 and 1 are used for what?

A

Calculation

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61
Q

If several subscribers transmit at the same time the logic 0 is dominant thus subscribers trying to transmit logic 1 can sense the dominant 0 and abort their transmission. They will retry transmitting at a later time. WHAT PRINCIPLE IS THIS?

A

CSMA/CA

62
Q

MAC

A

Media Access Control

63
Q

VLAN

A

Virtual Local Area Network

64
Q

PPPoE

A

Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet

65
Q

CRC

A

Cyclic Redundancy Check

66
Q

TCP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

67
Q

UDP

A

User Datagram Protocol

68
Q

FTP

A

File Transfer Protocol

69
Q

TFTP

A

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

70
Q

CSMA/CA

A

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

71
Q

AFDX

A

Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet

72
Q

ACARS

A

Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System

73
Q

OSI

A

Open System Interconnection

74
Q

ADIRU

A

Air Data Inertial Referrence Unit

75
Q

MCDU

A

Multipurpose Control and Display Unit

76
Q

EIS how can data be display if monitor failed?

A

displayed data to another monitor

77
Q

brightness of display is controlled automatically by?

A

light sensors attached to the display

78
Q

PFD display all the BASIC T.

A

Glass Cockpit Layout

79
Q

if an IC has been damage from ESD

A

Non repairable

80
Q

it works simplex operation

A

Arinc 429 / Arinc 717

81
Q

Light carrying component of the cable

A

Core

82
Q

in a fiber optic system compose of what

A

optical transmitter, optical receiver, optical couplers

83
Q

two types of LED character display

A

7 segment LED and Dot matrix display

84
Q

display does not radiate light

A

LCD

85
Q

if led does not radiate light what must be required for proper display of LCD

A

Active back light

86
Q

if personnel working in ESD components to prevent ESD what would be technique to be used?

A

grounding technique for personnel and device

87
Q

if 2 materials rubbed together one separated or moving in some kind rubbed of fluid or gaseous form?

A

Static electricity

88
Q

it is a zone of by high radiation which causes by equipment such as ground radar or strong radio or tv station

A

high intensity radiated field (HIRF)

89
Q

it is electromagnetic environment that will not affect one another?

A

EMC(electromagnetic compatibility)

90
Q

maximum interference allowable for particular transmission on a bus or wire?

A

EMI (electromagnetic interference)

91
Q

to keep within limit it can be necessary to install solve this device on the receiver and transmitter side of the unit?

A

EMI-filter

92
Q

detects transmission fault or it checks the transmission validity?

A

Parity Bit/Check

93
Q

it is a high integrity, high reliability, multi user data bus

A

Arinc 629

94
Q

Provide electrical signals from the computers to control surface actuators.

A

Fly by wire

95
Q

receive various inputs from aircraft systems and send these data to the displays

A

Display Computers

96
Q

each pilot can select on related EFIS Control Panel what he want to see on his nav display

A

Control Panels

97
Q

must be able to realize arithmetic processes and logical combinations

A

Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

98
Q

converts V signal/ analog signal to multi-bit signal

A

A/D converter

99
Q

data can be stored even when the system has no power

A

NVM (Non Volatile Memory)

100
Q

memory type keep information data either when switch is off

A

ROM

101
Q

programmed by short burst of current; irreversible

A

PROM

102
Q

can be erased electrical and then reprogrammed

A

EEPROM

103
Q

info can be altered so no erasing is required

A

EAPROM

104
Q

retain information provided to them by other systems.

A

Storage/Monitor Computers

105
Q

Defines the individual system

A

Core Software

106
Q

made of cable which are made of several wires. Used inside computer & connections between computers (parallel port / serial port)

A

Databus

107
Q

1 ‘transmitter 1 receiver. One way only

A

Simplex

108
Q

1 transmitter Multiple receivers one way only

A

Multiple simplex / Multi-Simplex

109
Q

1 transmitter and 1 or several receivers both direction but one at a time

A

Half duplex

110
Q

1 transmitter 1 receiver both directions at the same time

A

Full Duplex

111
Q

1 transmitter up to 20 receiver; Simplex-operations

A

Arinc 429

112
Q

Arinc 429 speed

A

Low speed (12-14 kBit) High speed ( 100 kBit)

113
Q

seperated by a gap of 4-8 bit time minimum

A

Arinc 429 / word synchronization

114
Q

It takes up the first 8 bit of the word

A

Label

115
Q

What test that runs when the equipment is switched on and checks the hardware?

A

BITE Test ( Built In Test Equipment)

116
Q

Data word is composed of how many bits in ARINC 429

A

32 bits

117
Q

What is 32 bits

A

Double Word

118
Q

It uses bit 9 and 10

A

SDI source and destination identifier

119
Q

These are linear signals

A

Analogue

120
Q

As for the analogue signals, electricity can be used to transmit signals over long distance via ___

A

wires or via radio waves

121
Q

Data bus used for DFDAU?

A

ARINC 717

122
Q

Protection of the limit for attitude

A

Flight Envelope Protection

123
Q

Not light sources but control light

A

LCD

124
Q

Termination resistor

A

To avoid signal reflection; both ends and bus

125
Q

The purpose of a package starts with a preamble

A

Synchronize the receiver

126
Q

Complies with the future developments of the communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management

A

ATIMS (Air Traffic Information Management System)

127
Q

Electronic Instrument System (EIS) components

A

Display computers, display units, control panel

128
Q

Displays are mainly used for two purposes:

A

Navigation, information about the aircraft

129
Q

Display units each pilot have:

A

Primary flight display (PFD), Navigation display (ND)

130
Q

Describes the system and is equal to the number of values a digit can have is called?

A

Base

131
Q

The standard shorthand form of writing numbers is known as

A

Positional Notation

132
Q

Octal designation letter

A

Q

133
Q

The simplest number system employing positional notion

A

Binary system

134
Q

A gate where the output has only a logical 1, if all inputs have a logic 1

A

AND Gate

135
Q

If personnel work in ESD sensitive components how to prevent the ESD

A

Ground Technique for personnel and device

136
Q

A drive found in the cockpit. The software is loaded from diskette or diskettes followed by the start-command

A

Airborne data loader

137
Q

Machine that process data by means of digital technology

A

Computer

138
Q

Bit generator used to synchronize step in computer

A

Clock

139
Q

Advantages of digital display over analogue

A

All of them significant display data are filtered, display are colored

140
Q

Consist of 4 conductors

A

Stub cable

141
Q

Can be replace in short time

A

LRU

142
Q

What is 4 bits

A

Nibble

143
Q

What is 64 bits

A

Quad word

144
Q

What is 8 bits

A

Byte

145
Q

What is 16 bits

A

Word

146
Q

It provides Bi-directional communication with high speed of up to 100 Mbits so a very high data throughput is available

A

AFDX (Avionic Full Duplex Switched Ethernet)

147
Q

Parameters used to set and monitor engine thrust are displayed on a

A

CRT

148
Q

They have a small transparent window

A

EPROM

149
Q

This time will be measured by pulses from

A

Pules generator

150
Q

Used to record sound on magnetic tapes

A

Electromagnetism

151
Q

Bits in group

A

Byte