“Piaggio P.

180 AVANTI/AVANTI II (PWC PT6)”

aircraft type training course – Category B2

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Rev. Date Prepared by Agreed by Training Manual Reference

00 24/10/2014 MARIO CASALI Rep. N° 180-MAN-0200-04870 Issue A0

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By end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• provide a detailed description of the Air Data system.
• identify the location of its component, limitations of the system and servicing
procedures.
• describe components removal and installation, functional test and
troubleshooting to Maintenance Manual level

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INDEX

ATTITUDE HEADING SYSTEM

ATTITUDE HEADING SYSTEM

ATTITUDE HEADING COMPUTER

ATTITUDE HEADING COMPUTER SCHEMATIC

DG-SLAVE MODE AND SLEW SELECTION

MONITOR LED

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Attitude Heading System

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Attitude Heading System

The Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) is a dual (pilot and copilot side)
AHS-3000 system.

Each AHS-3000 is composed of the following equipment:

• Attitude/Heading Computer (AHC), type AHC-3000;

• Flux Detector Unit (FDU), type FDU-3000;
• External Compensation Unit (ECU), type ECU-3000;

The AHC-3000 Attitude Heading Computer (AHC) provides pitch, roll, and stabilized
magnetic heading data to the EFIS displays, the FGC, and TCAS system.

The AHC also generates 3-axis body rate and linear acceleration outputs for use by
the FGC.

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Attitude Heading Computers

Powered by
Ess. Avio bus
thorugh AHC1
Powered by
circuit breaker
RH Avio Dual
and DC-DC1
Feed bus
CH2 converter
thorugh ADC2 through AHC 1
circuit breaker SEC circuit
breaker

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Attitude Heading Computers

The (AHC) uses inertial sensors to measure angular rate and linear acceleration
about the body of the aircraft and processes this data to calculate 3-axis (pitch, roll,
and yaw) angle, rate, and acceleration.

The AHC uses magnetic heading from the FDU and magnetic heading deviation
information stored in the ECU to calculate stabilized magnetic heading.

The attitude and heading data are supplied to the PFDs, MFD and other aircraft
subsystems via the IAPS and system bus structure.

A redundant system bus supplies attitude and heading data directly to the PFD. AHC
reversion is available in case of an onside AHC failure.

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Attitude Heading Computers

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Attitude Heading Computer schematic

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Attitude Heading Computer

This schematic shows the heading, compensation, and ARINC 429 I/O interface
circuits of the left AHC-3000 Attitude Heading Computer (AHC). It also shows the
left ECU-3000 External Compensation Unit (ECU) and the left FDU-3000 Flux
Detector Unit.

The +28 VDC avionics essential bus power provides the primary power the left AHC.
From the +28 VDC avionics essential bus power, a DC/DC converter provides the
backup power to the left AHC. The power supply circuits use switching and linear
regulators to generate the internally required voltage levels.

The power supply also contains a power monitor circuit. This circuit causes the data
bus outputs to indicate “invalid” data, when any of the various power supply
outputs exceed preset limits.

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Attitude Heading Computer

 
The left ADC inputs the L-ADC-1 data bus that contains the true airspeed (TAS)
information that is used to compensate for false alignment errors that can occur
during maneuvers.
The Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) uses a quartz based inertial sensor
technology to measure the airplane movement.

The IMU provides the 3-axis body angular rates (body pitch rate, body roll rate, and
body yaw rate), 3-axis Euler angular rates (Euler pitch rate, Euler roll rate, and Euler
yaw rate), 3-axis body accelerations (longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration,
and normal acceleration), and 3-axis level acceleration (along-heading acceleration,
cross-heading acceleration, and vertical acceleration).

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DG-SLAVE mode and SLEW selection

Near the polar area the Horizontal component of the hearth magnetic field (to
which the FDU is sensible) is null: in this area the AHRS is operable by means of
the DG button. The DG FREE gyro follows the direction at the moment of he DG
selection and the inertial components internal to the AHC feel the directional
changes.
Depressing the DG button on the reversionary panel, the DG FREE gyro mode is
selected: the AHC does not use the magnetic heading input from the FDU. When in
DG FREE mode, the SLEW L/R switch connects +28 VDC to slew the heading
computations left or right.
The compass rose turns toward the selected direction. In NORM (slave) mode, the
heading computations in the AHC are slaved to the magnetic heading sensed by
the FDU.

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Monitor LED
This LED may show three states:
OFF, RED or AMBER.

OFF During normal operations with no MONITOR LED

critical faults present.

RED When a critical failure internal to the
AHC-3000 is present.
AMBER When the FDU-3000 or the ECU-3000,
but not the AHC-3000, have a critical
failure.

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