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Module 5
Digital Techniques / Electronic Instrument Systems
Answer:C
7. The command bars on an ADI relate to
a) path required
b)path being followed
c) roll indications
Answer:A
4. Two connected fibre optic cable ends are parallel but not quite
touching. This is called
a) lens connector
b)end to end coupling
c) end fire coupling
Answer:B
9. An EADI display showing a moving runway moves down during the final
stages of an approach. The aircraft must
a) fly up
b)fly down
c) hold descent path
Answer:B
ABC
000
100
010
111
a) NAND gate
b)AND gate
c) OR gate
Answer:B
6. Where are the Digital Flight Data Recorder outputs supplied to?
a) The recording unit
b)Flight instruments
c) There are no outputs
Answer:C
7. FMS failure and warnings are
a) displayed on EICAS
b)engine warnings only
c) EFIS warnings only
Answer:A
Answer:A
10. If a signal has quantity in volts and physical position it is
a) digital
b)synchronous
c) analogue
Answer:C
Answer:C
6. An FMS navigation database is updated
a) at the operators request
b)once a month
c) every 28 days
Answer:C
Answer:A
8. Fly-by-wire load alleviation function in turbulent conditions will
result in
a) ailerons moving symmetrically upwards
b)ailerons and spoilers moving symmetrically upwards
c) spoilers moving symmetrically upwards
Answer:B
b)raster scan
c) stroke pulse
Answer:B
Answer:A
9. HIRF is prevented from entering a fibre optic cable by
a) enclosing it in a metal braid
b)grounding the fibre at both ends
c) using an opto-isolator coupling
Answer:C
Answer:B
5. Magnetic deflection on a CRT is achieved by a
a) sawtooth waveform
b)trapezoidal waveform
c) sinusoidal waveform
Answer:B
1. The FMS can update the IRS position outputs by using information from
either
a) VOR and DME only
b)DME and GPS only
c) GPS, DME, LOC and VOR
Answer:C
5. What shape does the waveform take to counter the impedance effect of
the coils in an electromagnetic controlled CRT?
a) Trapezoid
b)Sawtooth
c) Rectangular
Answer:A
2. EFIS displays of the right hand and left hand displays are compared
by comparators in the
a) FMS
b)EICAS
c) Symbol Generators
Answer:C
Answer:A
6. What are the outputs of a Digital ADC
a) TAS, MACH, Altitude, TAT and SAT
b)TAS, MACH and Altitude
c) TAS, MACH, Altitude and TAT
Answer:A
2. Fly By Wire systems in the fully active mode, the actuators will
a) both be active
b)one in active mode, one in damping mode
c) both be in damping mode, awaiting control inputs
3. The parity bit in digital information is used
a) for BITE programs
b)to check the validity of data information
c) to check the status of the system
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A B B C A B A B B B
1. Control of software is by
a) the National Aviation Authority
b)engineers
c) the aircraft manufacturers
000
011
101
110
a) NOT
b)Exclusive OR
c) NAND
4. Which logic gate can be represented as a parallel circuit?
a) OR
b)Exclusive OR
c) NAND
9. Convert 1D to binary
a) 29
b)11101
c) 101001
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B A B C C B B A B A
1. An ARINC 429 Binary Coded Decimal word occupies word bits
a) 11 - 28
b)11 - 29
c) 1 - 8
3. A flight deck CRT LRU is being replaced. What does the ESDS label
indicate?
a) Wrist straps should be worn
b)Do not touch plug pins or leave them exposed
c) Remove power before connecting
b)Standby altimeter/machmeter
c) Cabin pressure controller sensor / machmeter / Altimeter
8. When using a wrist strap, before touching the LRU the resistance
should be measured from your skin to the end of the earth probe. This
should be
a) more than 10 kilohms
b)less than 10 kilohms
c) less than 1 ohm
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B C C B B A C A A C
ABA.B
000
100
010
111
a) AND gate
b)NOR gate
c) NOT gate
a) Or gate
b)NOR gate
c) NOT gate
10. Before fitting a Printed Circuit Board you should check the
a) resistance between skin and strap end plug is less than 10 megohms
b)resistance between skin and strap end plug is more than 1 megohms
c) resistance between strap and strap end plug is less than 1 megohms
3. Care must be taken when installing ARINC 629 cables into bus panels,
damage to cables can cause
a) arcing of high voltage signals
b)standing waves.
c) corrosion of the conductor
6. Before the aircraft is moved from the loading pier the pilot must
a) insert the latitude and longitude of the pier into the IRS
b)set the altitude to be fed into the INS
c) insert the longitude and latitude of the first waypoint into the
INS
1. An IRS has
a) accelerometers fixed to the airframe and gyros on a stable platform
b)accelerometers and gyros fixed to a the airframe
c) accelerometers on a stable platform and gyros fixed to the
airframe
a) 0 - 200 ohm
b)250 kilohm - 1.5 megohm
c) 20 megohm - 200 megohm
2. What must be entered into the IRS before the aircraft can be moved?
a) Present position
b)Flight plan
c) Cruise height
6. When the voltage that represents a logic 1 state is less than the
voltage that represents a logic 0 state, the logic being used is
a) either positive or negative
b)positive
c) negative
7. The output of an AND gate having two inputs A and B is logic 1. The
two inputs will have the logic states of
a) A = 0, B = 0
b)A = 1, B = 1
c) A = 1, B = 0
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B A A B A B C A A C
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C A A A B C B C B C
1. Some of the advantages of fiber optic cable over copper cable are
a) non conductive, easy to manufacture and assemble, higher bandwidth
b)smaller size and weight, non conductive, more rugged, higher security
c) non conductive, higher bandwidth, higher security, smaller size
and weight
2. When carrying out airframe bonding checks as part of a program of
HIRF prevention the airframe bonding resistance should be less than
a) 50 milliohms
b)100 milliohms
c) 1 ohm
4. IRS alignment
a) takes up to 10 minutes and the present position can be entered at
any time during alignment
b)takes up to 10 minutes and present position must be entered before
alignment.
c) takes up to 10 minutes and the previous flight shut down present
position is used for the alignment
5. A fault light appears on the IRS Mode Selector Unit during the
alignment sequence. The correct action is
a) immediately switch off and select the standby system.
b)select HDG/STS on the Inertial System Display Unit (ISDU), observe the
action code in the right alpha/numeric display
c) refer to the warning display on the EICAS/ECAM system.
c) will only be supplied from the same symbol generator when all
other symbol generators have failed
5. An encoder changes
a) analogue to digital
b)digital to analogue
c) data from one format to another
a) AND gate
b)OR gate
c) NOR gate
b)an LED
c) a photo diode
8. Once an ARINC 629 LRU has transmitted a message it will wait how
long before transmitting again?
a) Until the end of the synchronization gap.
b)Until the end of the transmit interval
c) Until the start of the terminal gap
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B A C C A B A C A B
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A B B C C B A B C
1. A fibreoptic lens type coupling with lens and integral LED compared
to an end-fire coupling is
a) more efficient
b)less efficient
c) equally efficient
2. An analogue to digital converter is as accurate as
a) the sampling rate
b)the frequency
c) the amplitude
4. An LED display is
a) red and green
b)monochrome only
c) high definition
5. An EFIS ADI display will show along with pitch and roll
a) flight director bars, autoland, compass rose, altitude
b)flight director bars, autoland, altitude, range to altitude, decision
height
c) decision height, autoland, rad alt , altitude
6. A full operation system BITE check will carry out a internal system
test that ensures the system meets design requirements and is operational
a) but will not move the controls
b)as well as checking full system and will move the controls to their
stops
c) as well as checking full system but will not move the controls to
their stops
9. What is a band?
a) A block of data
b)A bit of data
c) A byte of data
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A B B A A B B A C
1. An ALU is an example of
a) LSI
b)SSI
c) MSI
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C C A B B A A A A A
1. The method of producing (white) lines for aircraft symbols, V/S scale
etc. on an EADI is by
a) stroke scan
b)raster scan
c) trapezoidal input
4. 2D in decimal is
a) 45
b)43
c) 41
c) a synchronous counter
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A A A B A A B C B
3. 84 decimal in hexadecimal is
a) 54
b)f4
c) 5f
4. EADI displays
a) pitch and roll attitudes
b)heading and weather radar
c) pitch, roll and waypoints
2. The ARINC 429 system uses the following system to transfer data
a) non return to zero
b)harvard bi phase
c) bi-directional return to zero
2. Data to flight data recorder can be taken form a communal data bus if
a) it goes directly to it
b)the power is within flight data recorder limits
c) if source isolation has been considered
10. The name given to the joining of two fibre optic cables by aligning
them carefully and bringing them into close proximity of each other is
a) Fusion
b)End to end
c) Lens Coupling
This is exam number 40.
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B C B B C B C A B B
a) A or B = 1
b)A and B = 1
c) A and B = 0
a) NAND Gate
b)NOR gate
c) AND gate
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A B A C B A A A B C
6. The "light" emitted from a LED used within a fibre-optic system will
have a wavelength
a) slightly longer then that of visible light
b)slightly shorter then that of visible light
c) equal to that of visible light
9. Fibre optic cable over copper cable has the following advantages
a) non-conductive, easier to manufacture and assemble, greater
bandwidth
b)non-conductive, greater bandwidth, greater signal security
c) greater bandwidth, greater signal security, more robust
8. For an IRS System to pass the Alignment System Performance Test the
a) entered present latitude and longitude must agree with the latitude
and longitude at last power down
b)the No 1 and No 2 must both have the same latitude and longitude
present position entered
c) the latitude entered must be within given limits of the latitude
computed by IRU
10. Control Display Unit (CDU ) selection of TKE (Track Angle Error),
displays
a) distance perpendicular from the selected track
b)difference in degrees that the aircraft is to the right or left of
the desired track
c) difference in degrees from True North in a clockwise direction
from the desired track
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B C A A B C C B B C
2. The control of the speed or rate that the F/D Command bars move can
be controlled by
a) position feedback
b)rate or velocity feedback
c) amplifier gain
5. Can an LRU transmit and receive on more than one 629 bus?
a) Yes
b)No
c) Only if paralleled
6. ARINC 629 LRUs transmit
a) when addressed
b)when terminal gap is sensed
c) when signal gap is sensed
9. A typical example of an IC is
a) ALU
b)CPU
c) dip switch
a) 0, 1
b)1, 1
c) 0, 0
a) 0, 1
b)1, 1
c) 1, 0
Answer
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A C A C B A A B C A
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7. Where is the rising runway?
a) EADI
b)EFIS
c) CRTs in the passenger cabin
8. What is ILS marker frequency?
a) 75 Mhz
b)100 Mhz
c) 125 Mhz
10. An 8 data input multiplexer has how many Data select lines
a) 3
b)2
c) 8
4. A priority encoder
a) Outputs the selected input
b)Outputs the highest input
c) Outputs the lowest input
c) +10v to -10v
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a) has infinite colours
b)is monochrome
c) has only 3 colours
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b)memory is stored when power supply is removed
c) it does not require a refreshing charge
8.
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b)Shift register
c) Counter
Answer-56
1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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