Aircraft. Instruments

1. Give the definition to ‘aircraft’.

2. Give the definition to ‘wing’. What does it provide? What must the wing support?

3. What is roll? What device is it controlled by?

4. What is pitch? What device is it controlled by?

5. What is yaw? What device is it controlled by?

6. What are ailerons?

7. What type of control is obtained through the use of them?

8. What is rudder?

9. What is the purpose of the rudder in flight?

10. What is elevator?

11. What is the purpose of the elevator in flight?

12. What is a fuselage? What does fuselage acomodate?

13. How are civil aviation aircraft subdivided according to their purpose?

14. How can all aircraft be classified in accordance with their structural peculiarities? Depending on the: - number and position of main planes;

- number of engines;

- landing gear construction;

- fuseage type.

15. Name the main parts of a conventional aircraft.

16. What does the tail unit consist of?

17. What is the landing gear system used for?

18. What are the two basic types of landing gear?

19. What is a propeller?

20. What is an engine?

21. What types of engines do you know?

22. What are the components of a piston engine?

23. What does the aircraft structural strength depend on?

24. How is an airplane strength measured?

25. What flight instruments are used by the pitot-static system for their operation? (altimeter, airspeed indicator, vertical speed indicator)

26.What flight instrument measures and shows the diference between pitot and static pressure?

27. What flight instruments utilize the properties of a gyroscope for their operation? (turn indicator, heading indicator, attitude indicator)

28. What is the aim of attitude indicator? (shows the aft attitude relative to horizon)

29. What light is attitude indicator essentially used in? (IFR)

30. What is the aim of heading indicator?(displays the aft heading relative to north)

31. What is the aim of vertical speed indicator/variometer?What does it display? (rate of climb or descent)

32. What does the altimeter measure?(the aft height above some reference level bymeasuring the local pressure)

33. What is the aim of the turn indicator?(displays the direction and rate of turn)

34. What does the airspeed indicator measure?(aft’s speed in relation to air around)

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