Day One Revision

Propulsion
1. What are the four words that describe the operation of the jet
engine?

2. What are the five stages of the engine?

3. What is the role of the compressor?

4. What is the relationship between the turbine and the

compressor?

5. What other roles can the turbine fulfil?

6. At what ratio will kerosene burn efficiently at?

7. What prevents the turbine from being 100% efficient?

8. How are losses due to gas leakage over the blades reduced?

9. Pressure/ Volume/ Temperature;

a. Draw, label and explain the working cycle.

b. What is the relationship between temp/ pressure/
volume in convergent and divergent ducts?
FADEC
10. What does FADEC stand for?

11. Why do we control fuel flow?

12. What are the control parameters?

13. What is the ADC?

14. What are VGV and IGV and what do they do?

15. What are the power supplies to the FADEC – and why?

RPM
16. Why do we need to measure engine speed?

17. Three ways that the RPM is measured?

18. Why do we have propeller synchrophasing and what is meant

by master and slave?
Day Two Revision
EGT
19. What are the two types of thermocouple

20. What is the difference between the stagnation and rapid

response thermocouples – and why?

21. How and why do we compensate for the fact that that the
pilots don’t like to have cold feet?

22. What are the positive and negative wires or the thermocouple
circuitry both up to and after the junction block?

23. Why do we not use the same materials all through the circuit?

24. What are the trimming resistors for and what material are
they made of in each line?

25. What are ballast resistors?

26. What is the EGT pyrometer and what principle does it work
on?

Fuel and Oil Pressure

27. What are the two main part of the oil pressure transmitter?

28. How does the low oil pressure indicator operate?

29. Where are the fuel pressure switches?

30. At what pressure difference will the fuel pressure indicator

lights come on?
Fuel and Oil Temperature
31. What is the principle of the oil temperature bulb?

32. Where is the oil temp bulb located?

33. What simple principle do the fuel and oil temp indicators
work?

EPR
34. What is EPR an indication of?

35. What is IEPR?

36. Why do we have trimming facilities on ER and IEPR systems?