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• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-30
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Automation › Information Management

  folders on a desktop and some within a hierarchy. The first critical information management skill for flying with advanced avionics is to understand the system at a conceptual level. Remembering how the system is organized helps the pilot manage ... important to understanding that learning knob-and-dial procedures is not enough. Learning more about how advanced avionics systems work leads to better memory for procedures and allows pilots to solve problems they have not seen before. There are also…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-29
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Understand the Platform › Managing Aircraft Automation

  computer to execute. Another 15 percent of all GA accidents occurs during takeoff and initial climb. An advanced avionics safety issue identified by the FAA concerns pilots who apparently develop an unwarranted over-reliance in their avionics and the aircraft ... significant factor in the GA accident record of high performance aircraft used for cross-country flight. The FAA advanced avionics aircraft safety study found that poor decision-making seems to afflict new advanced avionics pilots at a rate higher than…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 2-5
  Chapter 2: Ground Operations › Preflight Assessment of the Aircraft › Visual Preflight Assessment

  Avionics master switch ON to check avionics. Avionics master switch OFF, master switch OFF. Aircraft equipped with Integrated Flight Deck (IFD) “glass-panel” avionics and supporting systems have specific requirements for checking prior to flight. Ground-based inspections may include ... attitude displays; testing of low level alarms and annunciator panels; setting of fuel levels; and verification that the avionics cooling fans, if equipped, are functional. [Figure 2-6] The AFM/POH specifies how these preflight inspections are to take place. Since…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-31
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Automation Management

  Automation Management Advanced avionics offer multiple levels of automation, from strictly manual flight to highly automated flight. No one level of automation is appropriate for all flight situations, but in order to avoid potentially dangerous distractions when flying with advanced ... avionics, the pilot must know how to manage the course deviation indicator (CDI), the navigation source, and the autopilot. It is important for a pilot to know the peculiarities of the particular automated system being used. This ensures the pilot…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Airframep. 11-1
  Chapter 11: Communication & Navigation › Introduction

  However, modern, solid-state, digital avionics are highly reliable. Mean times between failures are high, and maintenance rates of avionics systems compared to mechanical systems are likely to be lower. The first decade of avionics proliferation saw a greater increase ... percent of cost of avionics compared to the overall cost of an aircraft. In some military aircraft with highly refined navigation, weapons targeting, and monitoring systems, it hit a high estimate of 80 percent of the total cost…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Airframep. 9-49
  Chapter 9: Aircraft Electrical System › Small Single-Engine Aircraft › Avionics Power Circuit

  Avionics Power Circuit Many aircraft contain a separate power distribution bus specifically for electronics equipment. This bus is often referred to as an avionics bus. Since modern avionics equipment employs sensitive electronic circuits, it is often advantageous to disconnect ... avionics from electrical power to protect their circuits. For example, the avionics bus is often depowered when the starter motor is activated. This helps to prevent any transient voltage spikes produced by the starter from entering the sensitive avionics. [Figure…