Board Instruments and Systems 1

Prerequisite:

Occupational Safety II KM (35BP2)

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Measurement

Synopsis:

This course provides information on airborne LF systems and instruments included in this branches: special converters, long distance transmissions, generators, airframe and engine monitoring systems, aerometric instruments. In the laboratory courses students test them and measure their parameters.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Airborne instruments; basic overview; purpose and use

2. Cockpit equipment, alignment according to the aircraft

3. Special sensors and actuators of aircraft instrumentation

4. Power supply sources and distribution of electrical power

5. Electrical transmittion in aircraft

6. Fuel and oil pressure and oil temperature measurement

7. Cylinder head and exhaust gas temperature measurement

8. Airborne fuel system; fuel used and fuel flow measurement

9. Revolution and vibration measurement, sensors, instruments

10. Central computer processing of engine parameters

11. Fuel system, measurement of total and critical amount of fuel

12. Anti-ice systems and position indicators

13. Altimeters and their types; barometrical measuring of altitude

14. Speedometer construction, vertical speed measurement, mach-number measurement

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Measurement of static pressure - voltage convertors

2. Measurement of parameters of the microsyn type sensor

3. Measurement of parameters of the fuel pressure sensor and oil pressure sensor

4. Check of the fuel consumption indicator

5. Measurement of the selsyn parameters

6. Function test of the step motor

7. Measurement of the capacitance fuel level sensor parameters

8. Parameters of resolver type sensor

9. Measurement of the solid-state power supply parameters

10. Measurement of parameters of the voltage regulator

11. Exhaust-gas temperature indicator check

12. Check of the system for torque measurement

13. Revolution indicator measurement

14. Fuel consumption indicator check

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Palett, E. H. J.: Aircraft Instruments. Civil Aviation Authority, UK, 1998

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: