Primary Flight Display (PFD) Introduction Flashcards
What is the function of the primary flight display?
Provide flight data to the pilot essential to the operation of the aircraft.
What instrument is normally placed at the centre of an analogue or digital display?
Attitude indicator
What is the advantage of analogue instruments?
- Require no electrical power apart from lighting.
- Negates requirement for bulky power supply.
What is the advantage of a glass cockpit?
- Information is more accurate.
- Automation systems are more accurate.
- Data is displayed more ergonomically.
- System provides a checklist incase anything goes wrong
When we talk about scan, what is the primary instrument at the centre of our flight instrument scan?
Attitude indicator.
Does the selective radio scan change whether scanning analogue primary flight instruments or a PFD?
No
What are the three essential elements of scanning?
1) The attitude indicator is the primary instrument and the centre of attention.
2) Scan always radiates to and from the attitude indicator.
3) The scan is selective
What are the primary flight instruments?
1) Airspeed Indicator
2) Attitude indicator
3) Vertical speed indicator
4) Altimeter
5) Vertical Speed Indicator
6) Heading Indicator
7) Turn coordinator
Which of the primary instruments are pitot static?
- ASI
- VSI
- Altimeter
What are the gyroscopic instruments?
- Turn Coordinator
- Attitude Indicator
- Heading Indicator
What are the control instruments and what do they determine?
- Indicated Air Speed (IAS)
- Flight Path
Power indicator
Attitude indicator
What are the performance instruments and what is their function?
The performance instruments include:
- ASI
- Altimeter
- VSI
- Heading Indicator
- Turn Coordinator
What are the standby instruments?
- Standby turn and slip indicator.
- Standby compass
- Standby attitude indicator
- Standby ASI and Altimeter
- Clock
