FlyMatt2Bermud From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 563 posts, RR: 7 Posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 4448 times:
Check out a full interactive panoramic view of the Airbus 380 cockpit. It is awesome. The lower left panel shows the relative GPS position of the aircraft on the airport diagram. Ground we're ready for push back!! http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm
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2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 1, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 4441 times:
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Man, what a cool image.
What's the video camera (up high and aft) for? Broadcasting the view to the pax, or as a supplement to the CVR and FDR? Or both?
FlyMatt2Bermud From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 563 posts, RR: 7 Reply 2, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 4430 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 1): What's the video camera (up high and aft) for?
I do not know whether the intent is to store the cockpit video recordings. Typically that data would be very confidential and access highly restricted and limited to specific events.
The A380 does have an incredible CVMS Cabin Video Monitoring System which gives the flight deck and specific cabin attendant stations the capability to monitor all cabin activity and exterior activity depending upon the camera location selections of the operator. The CVMS is designed to accommodate up to 100 color cameras recording 30 frames per second. Networking is enabled through a fiber optic ethernet link. I doubt the full capability of the system is available to non-operators. You can read all about it at: www.parker.com/ag/esd/literature/cvms.pdf
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Phxplanes From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 436 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 4414 times:
Where are all the circuit breakers, I see a few up above but usually they have the hole back wall full of them.
Ceph From Singapore, joined Jun 2007, 141 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 4400 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 1): What's the video camera (up high and aft) for? Broadcasting the view to the pax, or as a supplement to the CVR and FDR? Or both?
I suppose its for flight test use? Since the plane is one of the ones in the test fleet.
JetMech From Australia, joined Mar 2006, 2589 posts, RR: 53 Reply 6, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 4334 times:
Quoting Phxplanes (Reply 3): Where are all the circuit breakers, I see a few up above but usually they have the hole back wall full of them.
Quoting TristarSteve (Reply 5): They are probably downstairs in the equipment bay. Modern aircraft keep the CBs away from the crew.
On the A330 / A340, all the CB's are located downstairs as Steve has mentioned. There are discrete panels of CB's dotted around the NLG bay structure. There is also a major wall of CB's in the same place where Boeing puts all the avionics boxes on the 747 (i.e. the front wall of the MEC which can be reached from the lateral walkway area). I presume the A380 may be similar.
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[Edited 2008-01-29 02:41:10]
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KFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3263 posts, RR: 33 Reply 7, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 4310 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 1): What's the video camera (up high and aft) for? Broadcasting the view to the pax, or as a supplement to the CVR and FDR? Or both?
Phxplanes From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 436 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4136 times:
Quoting TristarSteve (Reply 5): They are probably downstairs in the equipment bay. Modern aircraft keep the CBs away from the crew.
You can see a few right at the top of the panel. B777 is similar.
Quoting JetMech (Reply 6): On the A330 / A340, all the CB's are located downstairs as Steve has mentioned. There are discrete panels of CB's dotted around the NLG bay structure. There is also a major wall of CB's in the same place where Boeing puts all the avionics boxes on the 747 (i.e. the front wall of the MEC which can be reached from the lateral walkway area). I presume the A380 may be similar.
Thanks I always thought that you would want them right there for easy access
Tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80 Reply 12, posted (5 years 4 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3971 times:
Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 11): Quoting TristarSteve (Reply 5):
They are probably downstairs in the equipment bay. Modern aircraft keep the CBs away from the crew.
Woudn't near access provide some extra assurance.
Extra assurance of what?
If a CB trips, there is a reason. That reason is generally not obvious or discoverable by the flight crew. As a result, it's a very bad idea for the flight crew to reset popped breakers. This exact situation resulted in a 727 being written off in India.
HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31228 posts, RR: 58 Reply 14, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 3881 times:
Quoting Tdscanuck (Reply 12): As a result, it's a very bad idea for the flight crew to reset popped breakers
Not referring to popped Fuel Boost pump cbs.but any other kind.
Which pilot does not reset a cb of a non fuel system if found tripped in flight.I can understand if it retrips again.
Quoting Tdscanuck (Reply 12): This exact situation resulted in a 727 being written off in India.
Are you talking of the explosion at BLR.Wasn't that related to a Fuel leak on ground post mx.
Speedbird2263 From Jamaica, joined Jul 2006, 458 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 3660 times:
Quote: Onboard Maintenance Terminal (OMT) and
Portable Multipurpose Access Terminal (PMAT):
The OMT is a PMAT located in the cockpit between the
third and fourth occupant seat. It is the main terminal to
interface with the OMS(Onboard Maintenance System).
During aircraft turn-around or maintenance, the OMS
can also be accessed by connecting a PMAT into one
of the network ports installed on various aircraft
locations.
Knoxibus From France, joined Aug 2007, 217 posts, RR: 21 Reply 19, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3643 times:
There are almost no more "physical" circuit breakers on the A380, and they are all mainly in the lower EE-Bay (there are two ee-bays on the A380, one below the cockpit, and one above, just forward of the upper deck cabin zones), almost solely for the power supplies.
The pilots and the maintenance use the OIT (the two monitors next to the flight crew displays) and the PMAT (portable maintenance access terminal, i.e. the laptop that you see) to "virtually" pull the breakers.
It is a great tool when you know how to use it. You can select a whole power bus bar, a dedicated system, and "pull" all the associated C/Bs. There is a good search tool, by system, name or FIN.
And the good thing is, you can add a red tag to a C/B you pulled, like "do not push back, working on flight control systems" for example, if you are thinking about pushing back ay the electro-hydraulics systems C/Bs.
Basically it replaces the old "danger" sticker you used to attached to the pulled C/B.
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