Provide a precise understanding of aircraft instruments, sensors, display systems, warning systems, and automated control interfaces used to monitor and control aircraft operation.

Core Syllabus Areas

• Sensors and engine instruments, including pressure, temperature, fuel quantity, tachometer, thrust, torque, vibration, and time-measurement instruments.
• Air-data measurement, including pressure, temperature, angle of attack, altitude, vertical speed, airspeed, Mach number, and air-data computer functions.
• Magnetism, direct-reading compass systems, and flux-valve principles.
• Gyroscopic instruments, including attitude, heading, and associated reference systems.
• Inertial navigation and inertial reference systems.
• Automatic control systems, including autopilot, flight director, AFCS modes, and mode awareness.
• Trim systems, yaw dampers, and flight-envelope protection logic.
• Automatic thrust control or auto-throttle systems.
• Communication system fundamentals relevant to cockpit instrumentation.
• Alerting and proximity systems, including stall warning, stall protection, take-off warning, altitude alerting, radio altimeter, and ground-proximity concepts.
• Integrated instruments and electronic displays, including glass cockpit logic and display integration.
• Monitoring, recording, digital circuitry, and computer-based system architecture.

Key Competencies

• Interpret analogue and electronic cockpit indications accurately.

• Understand how sensors convert physical parameters into usable cockpit information.
• Identify likely instrument or system failure modes and their operational consequences.
• Understand automation modes, annunciations, and pilot-monitoring requirements.
• Maintain situational awareness in highly integrated and automated flight decks.

34 Pages.