SH Chapter 10 - Flight Instruments & Displays Flashcards
1) What do the large red arrowheads on the PFD indicate?
Direction to move the nose to reduce pitch (occurs beyond 30 degrees nose up or down)
2) What are the pitch and roll protection limits indicated by the green = signs?
30 degrees NU, 15 degrees ND, and 67 degrees roll
3) When would the sideslip index change from yellow to blue?
Engine failure at take off or go around
4) What does the yellow speed trend pointer on the airspeed display indicate?
Where this speed will be in 10 seconds if acceleration remains constant
5) What is the difference between the magenta and blue target airspeeds?
Magenta is managed and blue is selected
6) What is Vls and how is it displayed?
Lowest selectable airspeed (lowest speed providing adequate margin to stall speed). Amber line on ASI.
7) What speed does VMAX represent and how is it displayed?
Lowest if Vmo, Mmo, Vle or Vfe.
Displayed by lower end of red and black strip on ASI
8) What is Green Dot speed?
Engine out clean speed (equates to best L/D speed)
9) What would be indicated if the altitude window changed from yellow to amber?
Aircraft has deviated from FCU selected altitude or FL by 250 feet.
10) When is altitude alerting and the C chord automatically inhibited in flight?
Altitude Alerting
Slats are out with gear down, in approach after glide slope capture and gear down and locked.
C Chord
When AP on and approaching a selected altitude or FL
11) What does it mean when the altitude digits change from green to amber on the PFD
On approach, for which a minimum has been entered into FMGS, if the aircraft goes below minimum
12) When is Radio Height displayed on the PFD?
Below 2500’ AGL.
13) What would a flashing amber ILS indicate on the bottom of the PFD?
When approach mode has been armed but LS pb has not been selected
14) Top of Descent and Continue Descent arrows are displayed in blue or white on the ND. What is the difference?
White if DES not armed. Blue if DES armed.
15) What color does each altitude constraint circle on the ND represent?
Magenta when ALT CSTR is predicted to be met. Amber when predicted to be missed, and white when not taken into account by FMGS & NAV mode armed
16) If mode range data fails, what should you expect to see on the ND?
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Default selection is ROSE NAV and 80NM
17) What are the 3 levels of ECAM Failure Mode Notifications?
Level 3 - Red Warning
- Immediate action
- CRC, master warning, red warnings & SD auto displays
Level 2 - Amber Caution
- System failure without any direct consequence to safety
- Single chime, master caution & SD auto displays (some exceptions)
Level 1 - Amber Caution
- Failures leading to loss of redundancy or system degradation
- No aurals, caution message on upper ECAM without procedure
18) If simultaneous failures occur, how will they be presented to the crew on the ECAM?
Priority for failures are level 3 first, then level 2, then level 1
19) What categories of failures are presented to the crew on the EWD?
Independent- Failure that affects isolated system or item
Primary - Failure that costs use of other system
Secondary - Loss of system from primary failure
20) What indication does the EWD provide for secondary failures?
“*” in front
21) What does the appearance of a green arrow at the bottom of the EWD screen indicate?
Too many messages for the space available
22) What does the display of TO INHIBIT or LDG INHIBIT indicate?
During high workload times, some warnings and cautions are being inhibited
23) When does the Takeoff Memo appear on the EWD?
Either 2 mins after second engine started or when TO CONFIG test button is pressed with one engine running
24) When does the Landing Memo appear EWD?
Below 2000’ (goes away after touchdown below 80 kts)
25) In general, when are the system pages automatically displayed on the SD?
Displays page related to the present flight phase (unless system malfunction or other mode engaged)
26) When is a STATUS page displayed?
When crew presses STS on ECAM Control Panel
Automatically in abnormal operations if crew clears last alert, and STATUS not empty or if crew selects CONFIG 1 and status page not empty
27) What computers feed data to the six display units?
Three Display Management Computers (DMCs)
28) Explain how each DMC normally supplies the different display units?
DMC 1 - Drives Capt PFD, ND and ECAM
DMC 2 - Drives FO PFD & ND
DMC 3 - On standby
29) How can you tell if a DMC has failed?
INVALID DATA displayed on Display Unit
30) What happens when the upper ECAM display fails?
Automatically switches to lower ECAM
31) If both the EWD and SD display units fail, how can you display EWD information?
Use the ECAM/ND XFR knob and push and hold the related system page. Then displayed on Capt or FO ND, whichever was selected.
32) With the upper EWD displayed on the lower screen, how else can you view SD information?
Use the ECAM/ND XFR knob or push and hold the related system page pb and it will be displayed on lower ECAM
33) What does pressing the ALL pb on the ECAM control panel accomplish?
Displays all system pages at 3 second intervals
34) What does pressing the RCL pb on the ECAM control panel do?
Displays all alters previously cleared by CLR pb that are still active.
If you hold for more than 3 seconds, displays all alerts previously cleared and all alerts cancelled via EMER CANC pb.
35) If you press the STS pb and the system has no STATUS messages, what will be displayed?
“NORMAL” for 3 seconds
36) If power fails to the ECAM control panel, which buttons are still functional?
CLR, RCL, STS, EMER CANC & ALL pbs remain operative.
37) What does the EMER CANC pb do when a warning exists?
Silences the aural warning and clears MASTER WARN but doesn’t affect the ECAM messages.
For cautions it cancels any present caution for the rest of the flight.
38) What occurs when the T.O CONFIG pb is pressed?
Simulates application of TO power.
Test that triggers a warning if the aircraft is not in take off configuration.
39) When does the Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) operate automatically?
On ground during first 5 mins of aircraft power up, or after first engine start and in flight. Stops automatically 5 mins after second engine shutdown.
40) What is the purpose of the DFDR EVENT pb?
Sets an event marker on FDR records.
