Aircraft Instruments – e.h.j. Pallett

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Aircraft Instruments: Principles and Applications/Second Edition Foreword vii
Preface to the second edition viii
Preface to the first edition ix
Historical background xi
1 Requirements and standards
2 Instrument elements and mechanisms 6
3 Instrument displays, panels and layouts 19
4 Pitot-static instruments and systems 50
S Primary flight instruments (attitude indication) 116
6 Heading indicating instruments l 59
7 Remote-indicating compasses 184
8 Aircraft magnetism and its effects on compasses 206
9 Synchronous data-transmission systems 225
10 Measurement of engine speed 242
11 Measurement of temperature 257
12 Measurement of pressure 298
13 Measurement of fuel quantity and fuel flow 313
14 Engine power and control instruments 338
1 S Integrated instrument and flight director systems 358
16 Flight data recording 373
Tables
Principal symbols and abbreviations 392
Conversion factors 393
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Standard atmosphere 399
Pressure/airspeed equivalents 400
Mach number/airspeed relationship 401
Temperature/resistance equivalents 402
Temperature/millivolt equivalent of typical iron v. constantan
thermocouples 402
Temperature/millivolt equivalent of copper v. constantan
thermocouples 403
Temperature/millivolt equivalent of typical chrome! v. alumel
thermocouples 403
Nominal dielectric constants and densities of fuels 404
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9. ARINC standard ATR case sizes 404
Typical pressure, temperature and rotational speed notations 405
Solutions to numerical questions 406
Index 40
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