Description
Aircraft Instruments & Integrated Systems by Pallett, published by Pearson, explains the operating principles and construction of the instruments and integrated systems used for flight handling, navigation and powerplant performance monitoring. The systems described are representative of those installed in a range of civil aircraft types, with emphasis on digital computer techniques and electronic displays.
Key features
- Illustrated with schematic diagrams, colour and black-and-white photographs, tables and appendices
- Essay-type exercises and multi-choice questions at the end of each chapter for self-testing
- Solutions to exercises and an index are included
Contents
- Instrument displays, panels and layouts
- Air data instruments and air data computers
- Direct-reading compasses and gyroscopic flight instruments
- Synchronous data-transmission systems
- Digital computers and data transfer
- Magnetic reading reference systems and flight director systems
- Inertial navigation/reference systems (INS/IRS)
- Electronic (CRT) displays and Electronic Flight Instrument Systems
- Engine instruments, fuel quantity indicating systems and engine power and control instruments
- Electronic instruments for engine and airframe systems control
- Flight management systems
