Exercises Lecture 4

Cockpits, Instruments & Navigation

Prof. dr. ir. Jacco Hoekstra

Tim van Leeuwen
Delft University of Technology

S. Morchon - CC - BY - NC - ND
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Exercise 1
What does the term ’glass cockpit’ refer to?
A) A cockpit which has bigger windows, allowing better vision for the pilots.
B) A cockpit with reinforced glass, to prevent against bird strikes.
C) A cockpit with electronic displays, rather than analogue dials.
D) A cockpit with more instruments, for better pilot awareness.

Exercise 2
What item(s) can not be seen on a primary flight display? (Multiple answers could be correct)
A) The time
B) Vertical speed
C) Fuel levels
D) Heading
E) Attitude
F) Airspeed
G) Meteorological information

Exercise 3
What does the accronym "CDU" stand for?

Exercise 4
Below you see the Glass cockpit of a Boeing 757. You are given 9 instruments, put them into the
right position:
Captain PFD - Co-pilot PFD - Mode Control Panel - Co-pilot CDU - Captain CDU - Captain ND
- Co-pilot ND - EICAS - Throttle levers

Figure 1: The glass cockpit of a Boeing 757. Image courtesy of Monito1975, CC - BY - SA

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Exercise 5
There is one cockpit feature which we have not discussed in the lecture, and that feature can
primarily be found in fighter jets. This feature allows flight data to be projected on the window of
the cockpit, such that the pilot can simultaneously look outside and see flight information. What
do we call this system?

Exercise 6
What units is/are used in aviation for measuring airspeed? (Multiple answers can be correct)
A) m/s
B) kts
C) km/h
D) ft/s

Exercise 7
A flight from Geneva to San Fransisco covers 9393 kilometres. How many nautical miles does this
correspond to?

Exercise 8
At an altitude of 24,000 feet a Pitot tube measures a total pressure of 0.5564 bar. Determine the
equivalent airspeed (in metres per second) of the aircraft (assuming ISA conditions).

Figure 2: A visible Pitot tube. Image courtesy of Angelo DeSantis, CC - BY

Exercise 9
Consider again the Pitot tube of the previous exercise.
A) What is for this aircraft the true airspeed (in metres per second)?
B) What is the Mach number this aircraft flies at?

Exercise 10
An aircraft flies with an equivalent airspeed of 300 ft/s at an altitude where the air density is 0.74
kg/m3 . Determine its true airspeed, in kilometres per hour.

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Exercise 11
A commercial aircraft flies at Mach number 0.67 at an altitude where the air temperature is -19.15
◦ C. Assume ISA conditions.

A) Determine the altitude (in metres) this aircraft flies at.

B) Calculate the equivalent airspeed (in feet per second) of this aircraft.

Exercise 12
A Boeing 777 is flying at 8.2 kilometres altitude, with an indicated Mach number of 0.84. Determine
the equivalent airspeed of the aircraft (in kts).

Figure 3: A Boeing 777. Image courtesy of Go Horikoshi, CC - BY - NC - ND

Exercise 13
1) An aircraft flies at an altitude of 32,000 ft. Determine its altitude in metres.
2) If the ground beneath the aircraft is situated 6,000 ft above sea level, what is the height of the
aircraft in feet?

Exercise 14
The course of an aircraft with respect to the true North is 120◦ , its course with respect to the
magnetic North is 122◦ . Determine the magnetic variation at this location (in degrees).

Exercise 15
A compass indicates a heading of 243◦ , whereas it is known that the actual magnetic heading is
246◦ . Determine the deviation of this compass (in degrees).

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