Oral Questions Flashcards
How should a Pilot Call mechanic outside the aircraft?
Press and hold MECH button. It will iluminate a blue light on the Ext Pwr Panel and an external horn will sound.
How should a Pilot call the forward flight attendant?
Press the Fwd button
What happens when EMER push button?
2 Pink lights flashes at all area Call panels
EMERGENCY CALL appears on all AIPs
High-low chime sounds 3 times on all loud speakers
What happens if Flight Attendants initiate an emergency call?
The white EMER ON light and amber CALL lights flashes
The amber ATT lights flash on all ACP
3 long buzzers (inhibited in TO and LAND)
In the cabin, the EMERGENCY CALL message will appear in AIP
What happens when CREW SUPPLY PB ON?
Valve opens to supply low press oxygen to the masks
How does PAX Oxygen works?
Chemical Oxygen Generators they last Approx 15min
What SYS ON light means?
Signal is sent to release the oxygen mask door.
What causes auto deployment of the PAX Masks?
Cabin Alt 14000ft
CREW OXYGEN MASK Microphone deactivated when the mask is stowed?
Reset control of the mask
What indication will indicate Crew Oxygen Cylinder Thermal Discharge?
Missing Green Disk on lower left side of the fuselage
Why is the GND CTL PB ON during preflight?
To record Preflight activities
How does the RCDR GND CTL system work in AutoMode
On for 5 mins after Electrical Power is supplied to the A/C.
Will come on after at least 1 Engine Running and it will stop 5 mins after last engine shutdown.
How is the PAs recorded?
ACP3 PA volume knob 12 o’clock position
What does the GPWS SYS PB Do?
All basic GPWS alerts are inhibited.
GPWS FAULT light in SYS PB indicates?
Any failure of GPWS mode.
Does the FAULT light on the GPWS SYS PB has any effect on TERRAIN MODE?
No Effect
Situation to press GPWS LDG FLAP 3?
To avoid warning when landing in CONF 3.
Landing Memo will say CONF3
Situation to press GPWS FLAP MODE?
To avoid warning in case of landing with reduced flaps setting.
Flaps Sys 1(2) Fault.
A failure of TERRAIN MODE will have any effect on GPWS?
No Effect.
Significance of red FAULT light on the RAT/EMER GEN light?
ACBUS1 and ACBUS2 are lost and the RAT is not supplying Electrical Power.
It will normally Illuminate for approx 8 secs once RAT is deployed.
Ways to Deploy the RAT?
Automatically when ACBUS1 and ACBUS2 are lost.
Manually by Pressing MAN ON in the EMER ELEC PWR PANEL (supplies elec and hyd)
Manually by pressing RAT MAN ON in the HYD PANEL (supplies hyd only)
RAT supplies?
BLUE HYD SYS
EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL GENERATOR
Buses supplied by EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL GENERATOR?
AC ESS
AC ESS SHED
DC ESS
DC ESS SHED
Cause of GEN 1 LINE SMOKE light illuminated?
Smoke detected in the avionics ventilation ducting.
Other indications of Avionics Smoke?
ECAM Warning
Amber Fault lights in the EXTRACT and BLOWER PBs on VENTILATION PANEL.
GEN LINE 1 PB in the off position what will happen?
Gen 1 line contactor opens
ACBUS1 get powered by Gen 2 via BUS TIE Contactor
Gen 1 will power 1 fuel pump directly in each wing tank.
How should the flight crew command an evacuation?
PA announcement
EVAC COMMAND PB press
How are the Flight Controls System Controlled and Activated?
Electrically controlled Hydraulically Activated
Hows Normal Law indicated on the PFD?
Green = for pitch/bank/overspeed limits
Amber/Black airspeed tape (AlphaProt)
Hows Alternate Law indicated on the PFD?
Amber Xs
Hows Direct Law indicated on the PFD?
Amber Xs
Amber “USE MANUAL PITCH TRIM”
Hows Mechanical Back Up indicated on the PFD?
Red “MAN PITCH TRIM ONLY”
Amber Xs
Normal Law in FLIGHT MODE what does the side stick command for pitch and roll?
G-load (pitch)
Bank (roll rate)
What are the Flight Control Computers?
ELACs - Elevator Aileron Computer (2)
SECs - Spoiler Elevator Computer (3)
FACs - Flight Augmentation Computer (2)
ELACs Functions
Normal and Direct Pitch and Roll Normal Elevator Normal Aileron Alternate Pitch Abnormal Alt Aileron Droop AutoPilot Orders
SECs Functions
Normal Roll Direct Pitch and Roll Alternate Pitch Abnormal Alt SpeedBrakes
SEC3 - Spoiler Control (1flight spoiler and 1ground spoiler)
FAC Functions
RUDDER TRIM RUDDER TRAVEL LIMIT YAW CONTROL WIND SHEAR PROT FLIGHT ENVELOPE PROT (VERTICAL) ALPHA FLOOR PROT LOW ENERGY WARNING PROT PFD Speed Scale
What happens to THS after landing?
It resets to zero
Normal Law Protections
High Speed High Angle Of Attack Load Factor (+2.5G/-1G Clean / +2G/0G Flap/slat) Pitch Attitude (30 Up/15 Dn) Bank Angle (67 max bank)
How does HIGHSPEED PROT works?
If VMO/MMO is exceeded, the system induces a pitch up input to limit A/C Speed.
Can HIGHSPEED PROT be overridden by the pilot?
No while in Normal Law, pilot will have to induce the A/C in Alternate Law
What is ALPHA MAX?
Maximum Angle of Attack allowed in Normal Law, and is indicated as the top of the red strip on airspeed scale.
How does HIGH ANGLE OF ATTACK PROT works?
When Angle of Attack exceeds ALPHA PROT, pitch trim ceases and angle of attack is now proportional to side stick deflection, not to exceed ALPHA MAX even with full aft side stick deflection.
What protections available in Alternate Law?
Load Factor
HighSpeed Stability
LowSpeed Stability
Is there any protections in Direct Law?
None.
Does Flare Mode works in Alternate Law?
Theres no Flare Mode in Alternate Law, the
A/C will go to Direct Law as soon as the Gear is Down.
When does Alternate Law reverts to Direct Law?
Gear Extension
When is a direct relationship between Side Stick and Flight Control Surface deflection?
In DIRECT LAW
When below 100feet
In which conditions can the A/C Stall in Normal Law?
Faulty Radio Altimeter
Recognize Stall indications regardless of control law and recover
Whats the purpose of Abnormal Attitude Law?
Allows A/C to be recovered from an unusual attitude.
And the A/C will enter in ABNORMAL ATTITUDE LAW by exceeding approximately double NORMAL LAW limits.
After abnormal attitude recovery the A/C will still be in ABNORMAL ATTITUDE LAW.
Flying at 300kts and they pull on the side stick full back, how high will the pitch go?
30 degrees Up
If the crew selected 100kts on the speed knob how slow will the A/C actually fly?
VLS
What would happen if the flight crew slowly pulled thrust levers to idle?
As airspeed decays, the Trim-able Horizontal Stabilizer will adjust to maintain altitude.
If the angle of attack increases to ALPHA PROT the pitch function of the stick changes. Stick movement commands angle of attack instead of a load change.
Auto trimming will be inop, the side stick must be held back to go slower than ALPHA PROT.
If the pilot continuous to pull back on the side stick, the speed will get to ALPHA MAX.
With full aft the elevators will adjust the pitch attitude to maintain ALPHA MAX (in theory the A/C cant be stalled in Normal Law)
Describe ALPHA FLOOR
Is a function of the A/THR, it will activate at any airspeed based of angle of attack. It will automatically apply TOGA thrust regardless of the thrust lever position. It requires to function:
At least 1 engine operative
A/THR is available
A/C in Normal Law
What would happen if crew attempts to over-stress the A/C in NORMAL LAW?
Maneuver Protection will prevent crew from over-stressing the A/C
Describe HIGH SPEED PROT
Flight Control Computers provide a Nose Up input to reduce Aircraft Damage, even if full forward is held on side stick.
This protection is indicated as green =
Overspeed warning when VMO is exceeded by 4kts
If side stick is released the speed will return to
VMO/MMO
When the HIGH SPEED PROT is active Bank is limited to 45degrees, control pressure is required to hold any bank angle, it is still posible to overspeed the A/C.
When a pilot rolls into a bank, whats provided by the flight control laws?
Normal Law Flight Mode:
Roll control is a Roll Rate Demand, it will maintain a constant bank angle at the back angle selected by the pilot and side stick in neutral.
Roll rate is 15 degrees with full side stick deflection and 0-15 degrees in other deflection rates.
It will hold constant bank angle up to 33 degrees.
If the bank is increased past 33 degrees it can only go to max of 67 degrees, and if the side stick is released A/C will return to 33 degrees of bank.
AutoPitchTrim will be inhibited at higher than 33 degrees bank angles.
