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Bookmark or Share- What is the relationship between "automatic flight control system AFCS ...The FMS is the whole system that includes everything from the knobs the pilots touch, the CDU's with keypads and screens, the black-box computers, everything.
- What is the difference between autopilot and fly-by-wire system?An autopilot can fly the aircraft based on pilot selected modes. The autopilot therefore reduces the pilot's workload by replacing manual inputs via the yoke or sidestick.
- What is a "Flight Director"? - Aviation Stack ExchangeSimply: Flight Director is a system that computes desired pitch and roll from parameters like heading, altitude, vertical speed. Then an autopilot computes control surfaces deflection from given parameters: pitch and roll. So: Pilot sets altitude, heading for Flight Director. Flight director then computes pitch and roll for Autopilot (and human ...
- Why does the pilot need to manually retard the thrust levers in an A320 ...The Airbus A320 FCOM (Autoflight - Flight Guidance - Flare Mode) says: At 30 ft RA, the AP/FD aligns the yaw axis with the runway centerline and the aircraft flares on the pitch axis. If the autothrust is active, thrust is automatically reduced to IDLE. So why do I need to retard the autothrust in manual landing?
- What is the vertical speed limit when altitude mode is engaged?What you are describing is the managed climb mode of the Airbus, where the Flight Management Computer (FMC) determines the optimum climb speed and the autoflight system will then pitch to maintain this speed. From the A320 FCOM (Autoflight - AP/FD Vertical Modes): Climb Mode (CLB)
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