Type Rating for Aircraft Engineer
The type rating in the license authorizes you to exercise certification privileges on a specific aircraft type(s). An Aircraft Maintenance Engineer is a licensed person (Aircraft Maintenance License, holder) who…
Aviation Regulations
Aviation regulations cover almost all legal issues affecting aircraft and airport operations, including aircraft navigation and maintenance, air traffic control safety, and personnel licensing requirements. Regulation is to give official…
ACARS
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is a digital data link system transmitted in the VHF range (129 MHz to 137 MHz). ACARS provides a means by which aircraft…
ADIRS
The air data inertial reference system (ADIRS) has two primary functions: Air data reference (ADR)Inertial reference (IR) The ADR function calculates: Airspeed, andBarometric altitude The IR function calculates this data:…
Aircraft Zoning
The zoning of large aircraft is specified by the Airline for America (A4A) in the ATA-100 Specification. These large areas or major zones are further divided into sequentially numbered zones…
Flight Control Surfaces
For an aircraft to reach its destination, the forces of flight have to be precisely manipulated. To do this, aircraft have control surfaces that can direct airflow in very specific…
EICAS
The Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System (EICAS) is designed by Boeing to provide all engine instrumentation and crew annunciations in an integrated format. The equivalent system on Airbus aircraft…
Servomechanism
A servomechanism is a force amplifier mechanism where the output accurately follows the input but with greater power. Movement can be linear or rotary. if the output is controlled by…
Physics for aviation
Physics is the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. The subject matter of physics includes mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity,…