My Notes

It seems a long while since I started these notes; my A340 course back in Jan 95. I dread to think what some of you may have been doing then. As always, the hardest thing is too keep them up to date with all the latest changes. These do contain info from the original manuals that was around in the early days. I've tried to retain that. On the other hand, I think they could do with a brush-up regarding the A346 stuff. It was never my intention to replace FCOM 1, just to distil the hard facts in (preferably) not more than 2 A4 sheets. So I don't really want all the bullshit about what controls the A346 rudder when the coffee machine has failed; it remains a suitable system of levers and will tell me when that's no longer so! As with the rest of my stuff, if it works for you, great. If you'd care to refine these notes for me with ref to the A346, even better. If you reckon, you got some stuff to share, use the e-mail link below!

Limits
21 Aircon Press Pneu
22 Autoflight
24 Electrics
26 Fire
27 Flight Controls and Laws
28 Fuel
29 Hydraulics
30 Ice & Rain
32 Landing Gear and Brakes
34 TCAS and GPWS
52 Doors
70 CFM56
70 Trents
GA Mouth Music
Visual Guide to ETOPS
Adverse Weather
Managing the descent
ETP and PNR maths
How Grid Nav works over the Pole
Reading a manual Loadsheet
Handy guide to NOTOC
4 pages of misc Ops Trivia
Airbus Cost Index
Airbus Performance
Critical Points as LL, various Peaks and comparative bridge lengths
Getting back from JFK

PRNAV - tuning navaids. I've yet to hear a considered response from C&T on this one and, no doubt, we will still be tuning NLG for the 25L departure long after the most junior FO has retired because we always used to do it but here's a thought:
The A330 MEL says, at 22-71-01 (currently a yellow TR), that the FM Nav database "must be current for sectors predicated on the use of P-RNAV/RNP 1 approach or departure." Further that it "may be out of currency provided prior to dispatch ... Approach Radio Navigation Aids are verified to be correctly tuned and identified." The corollary of this is clearly that, if the Nav database is current, the navaids need NOT be correctly tuned and identified. Note the MEL does not specify auto/manual tuning.

And just before I go, a thought about Rounding....

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Saturday, 17 February 2007



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