EASA Module 5

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1. Does the counting A-D converter start at the LSB or the 25. What colour flag illuminates on a comparator system?:
MSB?: LSB and counts up Yellow
2. How can you increase the resolution?: More bits 26. What does a basic shaft encoder covert?: Rotational to
3. How can you increase the resolution of the shaft encoder?: digital
More rings and brushes 27. What does a counting A-D converter have that an Up-Down
4. How is the basic shaft encoder errors overcome?: Using the counter doesn't?: AND Gate
Gray code 28. What does ARINC stand for?: Aeronautical radio incorporated
5. How many can an up down counter count down by?: Only by 29. What does a successive approximation A-D converter use
1 count instead of a counter?: Programmer
6. How many symbols generators are used?: 3 30. What does EHSI stand for?: Electronic Horizontal Situation
7. If the analogue input (Vin) is larger than the output of of A-D Indicator
converter (Vd) then what comes out of the comparator?: 31. What does EICAS stand for ?: Engine Indicating Crew Alerting
Logic 1 System
8. If the analogue input (Vin) is smaller than the output of of A- 32. What does the EADI display?: Pitch and roll, Slip, Ground
D converter (Vd) then what comes out of the comparator?: speed and speed error, flight director information, glide slope
Logic 0 and localiser deviation, warning and status messages
9. If the converter output of the successive approximation 33. What does the EADI stand for?: Electronic Attitude Director
converter(Vd) is less than the analogue Input (Vin) what System
happens?: Logic 1 will remain and logic 1 will also be Applied 34. What does the EHSI display?: Magnetic heading, radio
at the next lower bit steering command,
10. If the converter output of the successive approximation Way points, airports and navigation aids, distance to go, ILS
converter(Vd) is more than the analogue Input (Vin) what steering information
happens?: Logic 1 is removed from the MSB and moved to the 35. What does the programmer do at the start?: Sets the MSB to
next lower bit logic 1 and all other bits to Logic 0
11. If Vd is larger than Vd will the Up-Down counter count up or 36. What does 'VSI' stand for?: Vertical Speed Indicator
down?: Down
37. What instruments are on Basic 6?: Artificial horizon, Altimeter,
12. If Vin is larger than Vd will the Up-Down counter count up Vertical speed indicator, Turn and bank indicator, Compass,
or down?: Up Airspeed
13. Is ECAM Boeing or Airbus: Airbus 38. What instruments are on the Basic T and how many?: 4
14. Is EICAS Boeing or Airbus?: Boeing instrument; Airspeed, Altimeter, Pitch+role, Horizontal situation
15. On a ladder type D-A converter, does the LSB have more or Indicator(HSI)
less current and resistance?: Less current, more resistance 39. What is accuracy on an A-D converter?: How close the
16. On a ladder type D-A converter, does the MSB have more measured value is to the true value.
or less current and resistance?: More current, less resistance 40. What is a comparator system used for?: Used to detect
17. What are the 2 types of A-D converters: Counting, successive differences in signals between 2 sources and illuminates
approximation warning light if there's a difference
18. What are the 3 types of civil Databuses: ARINC 429, 573, 629 41. What is EADI also known as?: Primary Flight Display (PFD)

19. What are the advantages of an up-down counter?: Can count 42. What is EHSI also known as?: Navigation Display (ND)
up and down, much faster 43. What is EICAS also known as?: Electronic Centralised Aircraft
20. What are the advantages of the optical shaft encoder?: Monitoring
More reliable and like 44. What is odd bit parity?: Used a 1 or 0 to show if there is any
21. What are the quantisation intervals known as?: Intervals missing data
between the quantisation levels 45. What is resolution on an A-D converter?: The ability to
22. What are the quantisation levels known as?: The levels at respond to small changes in the input.
which the code changes 46. What is the difference between the basic shaft encoder and
23. What are the two types of D-A converters called?: Ladder the optical shaft encoder?: 1) Brushes are replaced with
type and R/2R ladder type phototransistors
2) copper replaced with transparent material(holes)
24. What can an Up-Down counter do that a counting A-D
converter can't do?: Count down 47. What is the disadvantage of the basic shaft encoder?: Errors
are induced by misalignment
48. What is the general rule for sampling a signal?: At least twice the bandwidth
49. What is the main advantage of the Gray code?: For each increment of rotation only one bit changes
50. What's is the 3rd symbols generator (SG) used for?: Backup if one other fails
51. What's is the computer processing the informations Called and it's acronym?: Symbol Generators(SG)
52. What starts the clock pulse on an A-D converter?: Logic 1
53. What stops the clock pulse on an A-D converter?: Logic 0
54. What type of pulse is used on a A-D converter?: Clock pulse
55. Why logic do you get out on a shaft encode if the brushed make contact with the copper?: Logic 1