Fly-by-wire, flight management and autopilot systems
Sensor systems
Task automation systems
Overview of aircraft stability and control
Cockpit Displays and Human-Machine Interface (8 hours)
Functions of the cockpit systems
Primary flight display
Analog display systems in the cockpit
Flight control instruments (side-stick, yoke, throttle, pedal)
Analog controls
Fly-by-wire system
Basic Navigation Systems (4 hours)
Principle of navigation system
Types of navigation systems: position fixing and dead-reckoning
Air data systems
Working principle of vertical speed indicator (VSI), altimeter and air speed indicator
Fly-By-Wire System, Autopilot and Flight Management (6 hours)
Fly-by-wire system architecture and data handling
Failure safety and triplex/quadruplex redundancies
Flight management and housekeeping
Data fusion
Communication and Navigation Systems I (14 hours)
Machinery fundamentals of radio wave propagation, antennas and transmission lines, communication, receiver and transmitter
Working principle of VHF communication, HF communication, audio systems, emergency locator transmitter (ELT), cockpit voice recorder (CVR), very high frequency omnidirectional range (VOR), automatic direction finding (ADF), instrument landing system (ILS) and distance measuring equipment (DME)
Communication and Navigation Systems II (8 hours)
Working principle of very low frequency and hyperbolic navigation (VLF/omega), Doppler navigation, area navigation (RNAV), flight management system (FMS), global positioning system (GPS), GNSS satellite system, inertial navigation system, ATC transponder and secondary surveillance radar, traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS), weather avoidance radar, radio altimeter, and ARINC communication and reporting
Practicals
Perform tests of basic flight controls
Use autopilot to perform altitude hold and vertical speed settings
Practice with Garmin G1000
Use of NDB and VOR
Refer to lab manual for software instructions and further exercises
