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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the dash of an aircraft called?
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Flight panel.
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What is the internationally agreed order that the flight panel is in called?
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Basic T
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What are the three main categories that aircraft instruments fall into?
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Pressure-operated
Gyroscopic operated Engine and Ancillary |
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Illustrate the basic components of a magnetic compass.
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Illustrate the configuration of the Basic T.
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Name the three main parts of a compass.
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The container
The compass bowl The magnet system |
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What is the compass container made out of?
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A non-metallic substance.
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The compass container houses a number of ____ and ____ ____ to absorb shock and aircraft vibration to prevent damage.
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coils, leaf springs
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The magnet system inside the bowl is immersed in ____. It consists of a number of magnets fixed ____ to each other and freely ____ from a ____ above their common ____ ____ ____. The magnets lie in the ____ ____.
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fluid, parallel, suspended, pivot, center of gravity, magnetic meridian.
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Name the essential features of an ideal aircraft compass.
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Sensitivity
Horizontally Periodicity (The magnet system and pointer must not oscillate about the direction of the magnetic meridian (dead beat) |
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An artificial horizon employs a ____ ____ ____ ____, having freedom in all three planes and indicates the aircrafts attitude in ____ and ____.
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vertical axis Earth gyro, pitch, roll
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Name the four essential pressure instruments in an aircraft.
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Altimeter
Vertical Speed Indicator Airspeed Indicator Mach Meter |
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What does ASI, AI, and DI stand for?
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Air speed indicator, Artificial horizon, Directional indicator.
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What type of pressure does not involve any motion of the aircraft relative to the air, but is the ambient pressure around the object?
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Static pressure
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What type of pressure is created by the forward movement of the aircraft?
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Dynamic pressure
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What is the name of static and dynamic pressure together?
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Pitot pressure
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Total pressure (____ and ____ pressure, also known as ____ pressure) , is measured by a ____ ____.
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static, dynamic, pitot, pitot probe
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Static pressure is measured either by the ____ ____ on a pitot probe, or by a separate ____ ____.
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static port, static vent.
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Illustrate the pitot-static system.
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Pressure around an aircraft ____ with an increase in height.
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reduces
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It is assumed that pressure falls by approximately 1 millibar for every ____'.
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A pressure altimeter is an ____ ____, which measures ____ ____.
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Aneroid barometer, atmospheric pressure
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The round, thin corrugated capsule within an altimeter is nearly ____ at sea level, and ____ with height, a process assisted by a ____ ____ trying to force the capsule open against atmospheric conditions.
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flat, expands, leaf spring
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The VSI instrument measures the rate of change of ____ pressure and displays this as a rate of ____ or ____.
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static, climb, descent
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With the VSI, the ____ is fed with ____ pressure and reacts immediately to any change, whereas the static pressure fed into the ____ is slowed by a ____ ____, thus creating a differential static pressure between the ____ and the ____. As long as the aircraft continues to climb or descend, the VSI will display this.
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capsule, static, case, metering unit, capsule, case
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The VIS consists of a capsule held in an ____ case.
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airtight
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Illustrate an altimeter dial.
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Illustrate the mechanics of an altimeter.
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Illustrate the mechanics of a VSI.
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Illustrate the dial of a VSI.
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