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ALL AIRCRAFT MUST HAVE CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS IN A SPECIFIC POSITION. THIS IS CALLED THE BASIC T. ATTITUDE & DIRECTION INDICATOR
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NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
THE NAVIGATION SYSTEM GIVES NAVIGATION DATA ON RELATED INDICATORS ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL. THERE ARE FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF NAVIGATION SYSTEMS INSTALLED. THESE SYSTEMS ARE:FLIGHT ENVIRONMENT DATA ATTITUDE AND DIRECTION LANDING AND TAXI AIDS INDEPENDENT POSITION DETERMINING DEPENDENT POSITION DETERMINING
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STANDBY COMPASS
HORIZONTAL
SITUATION INDICATOR
MARKER BEACON
A O M
TCAS
TRANSPONDER
GIVES A BAROMETRIC HEIGHT. THIS IS ACHIEVED BY HAVING A STATIC SOURCE ACTING ON A BELLOWS. AS THE AIRCRAFT CLIMBS, THE STATIC PRESSURE IN THE INSTRUMENT DECREASES, THE BELLOWS EXPANDS, AND THE NEEDLE INDICATES A HIGHER ALTITUDE. AS THE AIRCRAFT DESCENDS, THE STATIC PRESSURE IN THE INSTRUMENT INCREASES, THE BELLOWS CONTRACTS, AND THE NEEDLE INDICATES A LOWER ALTITUDE. TO COUNTER DAILY CHANGES IN PRESSURE, IT IS POSSIBLE TO ADJUST THE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE. A STANDARD DAY IS 1013 MILLIBARS.
This consists of a 3 spoke device on a flexible mounting, damped with oil. It is secured to the aircraft as far from magnetic interference as possible.
A coil mounted on the hub of the spokes is fed with 400 Hz a.c. Coils mounted on each spoke are connected so that normally the EMFs induced in them add up to zero. However the earths magnetic field causes an imbalance in this, giving an output proportional to the direction of the earths magnetic field. A errors (aircraft magnetic field errors) are normally removed by rotating the flux valve.
COMPASS COMPENSATOR.
This allows the compass system to be corrected for B & C errors (earths magnetic field)
The HSI compass card is driven by the output from the vertical gyro.
The Radio Magnetic Indicator (RMI), compass card is also driven by the output from the vertical gyro.
NOTE: No. 1 HSI and No. 2 RMI are driven by the No. 1 compass system and vertical gyro. No. 2 HSI and No. 1 RMI are driven by the No. 2 compass system and vertical gyro.
The Attitude & Direction indicator, displays a constant visual indication of the aircrafts lateral and longitudinal attitude relative to the horizon.
The pilots and co-pilots indicators are powered with 115-volt Ac, 400 Hz through 0.5 ampere fuses labelled PILOT ART HORIZ and COPILOT ART HORIZ, located on the overhead fuse panel.
A symbolic aircraft reference bar in the centre of the instrument represents the aircraft.
A Dc-powered standby indicator was installed on the pilots left panel to fulfil European Union requirements for all series aircraft.
Power for the unit is obtained from the Auxiliary battery busbar through a 5 ampere circuit breaker labelled STANDBY ART HORIZ LOCATED ON THE MAIN CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL.
CONTROL UNIT
ILS INDICATOR
RECEIVER
ANTENNA
AIRCRAFT COMMS
The ILS signals will produce steering signals to indicate how much the aircraft is off track either up/down or left/right.
If the signal is unreliable a flag will cover the indicators or a warning flag will be displayed on the indicator
Most VOR receivers also contain circuits required to decode and process lateral and/or vertical guidance information from an ILS ground facility. It may also process DME and marker beacon information.
LOCALISER ANTENNA
GLIDESLOPE ANTENNA
This is located at the far (departure) end of the instrument runway. It operates between 108 and 112 Mhz Its lowest assigned frequency is 108.1 Mhz. Only the odd decimal frequencies are localiser frequencies, i.e. 109.3, 110.7 and 111.9. The localiser is radiated to produce two intersecting lobes, left and right, directed along the length of the runway. The lobe on the left is predominately modulated with 90 Hz and the lobe on the right with 150 Hz. The two signals are equal along the centre line of the runway.
The middle marker transmits a 1300Hz audio tone and when over it, illuminates the amber middle marker light, typically 0.6 miles from runway.
The airways marker transmits a 3000Hz audio tone and when over it, illuminates the white inner light, typically at the end of the runway.
If the aircraft is too far up then the proportion of the 90 Hz signal is greater than that of the 150 Hz and a fly down signal is displayed on the glideslope steering indicator. The converse of this happens if the aircraft is too low. If all signals are in equilibrium, then the aircraft is flying right down the middle of the ILS signals.
RADAR ALTIMETER
RAD ALT
This is an airborne system used to determine the accurate aircraft height above terrain.
The altimeter transmits a constant train of radar frequency pulses to the ground, receives the reflected pulses, and measures the elapsed time between the transmission and reception of each pulse. The elapsed time is processed to provide an analogue voltage to drive the indicator.
RADAR ALTIMETER
TRANSMITTER/ RECEIVER
INDICATOR
ANTENNA
On pushing the test button, the alt needle is driven to 50 feet, the on/off/failure flag comes into view and the low level warning light comes on if the low level warning system is set to less than 50 feet.
And a low level height warning system:This consists of an adjustable bug and an indicator light or lights.
One antenna is used for transmitting and the other for receiving.
Bonding of the antenna to the aircraft skin is critical and poor bonding can lead to erratic readings.
The mode S transponder data link capabilities include bidirectional air-to-air information exchange, ground to air data uplink, air to ground data downlink and multisite message protocol.
TCAS COMPUTER
TCAS ANTENNA
DISPLAY UNIT
TCAS ANTENNA.
The TCAS antennas mount on the top and bottom of the aircraft to give all round aircraft cover.
The TCAS system gives RAs in the form of vertical manoeuvre designed to increase the separation of the intruding threat aircraft and your own. The vertical manoeuvres are shown as red and green arcs on the VSI indicator along the vertical speed scale. The green arc shows the vertical speed to fly and the red arc shows the vertical speed to avoid.
It is intended to give advanced alerting and warning to the pilot to help reduce the possibility of controlled flight into terrain.
The EGPWS triggers the following warnings:Aural warnings comprising aural messages heard over the flight compartment headsets and speakers. Visual warnings: illumination of TERRAIN and BELOW G/S (below glideslope) lamps in the pilots and co-pilots field of vision.
EGPWS
AIRCRAFT AUDIO
WARNING LAMPS
EGPWS COMPUTER
DISPLAY
SPKR VOL EMG 1 COM 2 3 COM 4 1 NAV 2 DME MKR 1 ADF 2 1 2 3 4 PA EXT PHONES
Rad ALT Air Data and Servo Instrument System Landing and Taxing Aids Flight Instrument System Flap Control Landing Gear Stall Warning
50% Red :- +2000 feet and over 50% Yellow :- +1000 feet to +2000 feet 25% Yellow :- -250 feet to +1000 feet 50% Green :- -1000 feet to 250 feet 16% green :- -2000 feet to 1000 feet Black :- below 2000 feet Cyan :- below 2000 feet
VISUAL WARNING
TERRAIN lamps TERRAIN lamps
AURAL WARNING
SINK RATE WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP TERRAIN WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP
TERRAIN lamps
TERRAIN lamps
DONT SINK
TOO LOW TERRAIN TOO LOW GEAR TOO LOW FLAPS GLIDESLOPE BANK ANGLES MINIMUMS
MODE 1
MODE 2A
MODE 3
MODE 4A
MODE 4B
MODE 4C
EGPWS INDICATORS
WEATHER RADAR
The weather radar system is an airborne system that provides a moving navigational display which graphically shows the relationship of the pilots selected course to significant weather.
Only precipitation (or objects more dense than water) will be detected by X band weather radar. Therefore weather radar does not detect clouds, thunderstorms or turbulence directly.
The best radar reflectors are raindrops and wet hail. The larger the raindrop the better it reflects. Because large raindrops in a concentrated area are a characteristic of a severe thunderstorm, the radar displays this as a strong echo.
WEATHER RADAR
DISPLAY UNIT
TRANSMITTER/ RECEIVER
ANTENNA
ANTENNA
Mounted in the nose cone of the aircraft. It is a single antenna that transmits and receives the X-band (8000 to 12500 MHz) radio pulses.
ADF
INTRODUCTION The automatic direction finder (ADF) is the oldest and most widely used radio navigation systems because of the availability of numerous ground stations.
AIRCRAFT AUDIO
INDICATOR
CONTROL UNIT
RECEIVER
ANTENNA
SPKR VOL EMG 1 COM 2 3 COM 4 1 NAV 2 DME MKR 1 ADF 2 1 2 3 4 PA EXT PHONES
The relationship between direction and magnitude of signal of the voltages induced in each antenna is processed by the sense antenna and transmitted to the receiver. This information is processed into a signal to drive the needle to the correct bearing on the indicator.
TRANSPONDER
DEPENDENT POSITION DETERMINING TRANSPONDER The airborne transponder is an important part of the air traffic control system being used today. The safety of passengers, aircraft and crew depends on the ability of air traffic controllers to locate aircraft within controlled airspace.
ATC A transponder is the airborne receiver - transmitter portion of the ATC (Air Traffic Control) beacon radar system. It sends an identifying coded signal, in response to a transmitted interrogation from a ground based radar station, in order to locate and identify the aircraft. Air traffic controllers use the coded identification replies of transponders to differentiate between the targets (aircraft) displayed on their radar screens. Being able to identify the aircraft aids the controller in maintaining aircraft separation, collision avoidance, and distinguishing types of aircraft.
The airborne portion of ATC consists of a transmitter/receiver (transponder), a control unit, a digitiser and an antenna.
The ground facility consists of a primary radar station, a secondary surveillance radar and a display unit (radar screen).
COTROL UNIT
ANTENNA
DIGITIZER
An ident button is also available to highlight the aircraft on the ATC display.
It is usually mounted in an area of the aircraft that will not be shielded from interrogation. This prevents the aircrafts identification from disappearing from the controllers radar screen.
PRIMARY RADAR
RADAR SCREEN
By calculating the elapsed time between transmission and reception of the RF beam, the distance to the target is determined. The angle of the antenna is also noted so that the bearing to the target can be determined.
This information is displayed on a 2- dimensional radar screen.
The received signal from the primary radar and SSR is electronically encoded so that it can be displayed on a controllers radar screen.
The type of radar screen is called a planned position indicator (PPI). The images on a PPI remain on the screen until the next sweep of the screen. In this way the controller does not have to remember aircraft positions between sweeps. The ground controller selects the identification codes he is interested in. If the controller is not interested in a particular aircraft its code will not be displayed.
DEPENDENT POSITION DETERMINING INTRODUCTION The VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) is a radio navigation system. VOR is used for position-fixing, maintaining course track and navigating along established airways. Basically, it provides the ability to follow a roadway in the air.
The phase difference is proportional to the radial angle from the VOR station. The bearing is then determined from this phase difference. From the determined bearing and the compass input to the indicator, aircraft heading and ground station bearing are displayed on the indicator.
CONTROL UNIT
VOR INDICATOR
RECEIVER
ANTENNA
AIRCRAFT COMMS
ANTENNA The typical antenna used by a VOR navigation system is a bat-wing type antenna, with an omnidirectional, horizontally polarised radiation pattern capable of receiving VHF signals in the 108 to 118 MHz range.
SPKR VOL EMG 1 COM 2 3 COM 4 1 NAV 2 DME MKR 1 ADF 2 1 2 3 4 PA EXT PHONES
VOR ANTENNA
ANENNA The VOR ground station transmits continuously and is capable of handling all aircraft within the limits of the ground station transmitter and the capability of the aircrafts receiver. The ground station provides voice transmission and an identifying code to ensure that the desired VOR station is being monitored. The identification signal (in morse code) is a 2 or 3 letter word repeated every 30 seconds.
INTRODUCTION Distance measuring equipment (DME) is a system combining ground based and airborne equipment to measure the distance of the aircraft from a ground facility. DME is used primarily for position fixing, enroute separation, approach to an airport, avoiding protected airspace, holding at a given position or figuring ground speeds
This is an airborne and ground based system, that measures the slant range of the aircraft from the ground station. The DME frequency if not manually selected, is automatically selected when an ILS/VOR frequency is selected, (the DME station being co-located with the ILS/VOR beacon).
Since the speed of a radio wave is a constant and known factor, the amount of time the signal travels is proportional to the distance. The airborne portion of the DME measures the amount of elapsed time and converts this to the distance (slant range) between the aircraft and the station. DME indicators may also show time to station (TTS) and/ or computed ground speed.
CONTROL UNIT
TRANSMITTER/ RECEIVER
INDICATOR
ANTENNA
ANTENNA The antenna is a single L-band (radio frequency band from 390 to 1,550 Mhz) transmit and receive antenna with an omnidirectional pattern.
ANTENNA
RECEIVER
TRANSMITTER
AUTOPILOT
INTRODUCTION
The autopilot system, when selected, reduces the workload of the pilot. It controls and physically flies the aircraft.
AUTOPILOT
The autopilot system comprises two main systems, the flight director and the aircraft control system.
The flight director side of the system takes the selected operational mode and, using the output of the autopilot computer, displays the steering information required to fly the aircraft.
The aircraft control system, takes the output from the autopilot computer and, using a set of servos, moves the aircraft controls, physically flying the aircraft in the mode selected.
AUTOPILOT
AUTOPILOT
FLIGHT DIRECTOR
AUTOPILOT COMPUTER
SERVOS
PITCH/TURN CONTROL
FLIGHT DIRECTOR
The basic flight director uses modes selected by the pilot to display steering information. If the selected mode is flashing, it is in standby, becoming steady when it is operational. HDG :- using the heading bug on the HSI then the steering information from the computer will be outputted to intercept and fly along that heading . NAV :- the nav selection will flash until the selected VOR beacon is found. Then the steering information from the computer will be outputted, to intercept and fly along that heading . APPR :- the appr selection will flash until the selected ILS beacon is found. Then the steering information from the computer will be outputted, to intercept and fly along that heading .
FLIGHT DIRECTOR
ALT :- when selected, will try and maintain the aircraft at the altitude it was selected. This is a barometric altitude selection. IAS :- will try to maintain the aircrafts indicated air speed, by changing the aircrafts attitude. B/C :- back course, disabled on many autopilot systems, allows the aircraft to be flown at the ILS beacon from the reverse direction. Only localiser information is given. It will flash until the selected ILS beacon is found then the steering information from the computer will be outputted, to intercept and fly along that heading .
FLIGHT DIRECTOR
ENG/DIS :- this switch engages or disengages the autopilot. The green triangle next to the switch indicates the autopilot is engaged and the amber that it is disengaged. Trim UP/DOWN :- flashing amber lights indicate when the autopilot is trimming the aircraft either up or down. If the system is run in flight director mode only or if there is no trim output function to a servo, then these lights will come on (not flashing) to indicate that a manual trim is required. DIM :- this is a rotary switch to dim the display lighting.
AUTOPILOT COMPUTER
The autopilot computer contains the necessary circuits to take information from navigation sources, process it and then produce steering information to the flight instruments and control servos. If the system only produces steering information to the flight instruments, then it is a flight director system, not an autopilot.
SERVOS
There are various servos to control the aircrafts flying control surfaces. Aileron servo :- controls the aircraft roll. Elevator servo :- controls the aircraft pitch. Trim servo :- controls the aircraft trim Rudder servo :- controls the aircraft rudder. The servos can all be overridden by manual inputs into the system. This is achieved by having a capstan fitted with a breakout torque.
PITCH/TURN CONROL
This allows pitch and turn information to be manually inputted into the autopilot system without disengaging the autopilot. Pitch control :- this is used to command the a pitch rate proportional to knob displacement. Rotating the control up or down produces a pitch command. The aircraft will hold the pitch last selected. The pitch control is spring loaded to centre, giving a pitch hold mode. Turn control :- this is used to command the roll rate proportional to knob displacement. Rotating the control left or right produces a roll command. The aircraft will hold the roll last selected. The pitch control is spring loaded to centre, giving a roll hold mode.