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This book was written to support FAA Airway Science Program and should help reciprocating-engine pilots prepare for the transition to turbine-powered aircraft. The book is intended to be a primer on turboprop and turbojet aircraft systems it is not flight deck oriented. Avionics, flight deck instrumentation, specific operating procedures, and other operationally oriented details are intentionally omitted.
It is the intent of this book to give the reader a basic understanding of what individual systems are designed to do, and how they do it.
It is not the intent of this book to teach pilots how to fly turbine-powered aircraft. Pilots transitioning to turbine equipment need to receive type training in the specific aircraft to which they are transitioning.
The book may be read cover-to-cover or used as a reference manual. All basic system descriptions are essentially generic. They are intended to give the reader a basic understanding of how typical systems operate.
Hopefully this text will help pilots transition to more complex aircraft as well as help them gain a better understanding of that awesome mystery we call flight.
- Principles of electricity
- Electrical systems
- Turbine engines
- Lubrication and cooling systems
- Aircraft propellers
- Hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Fuel systems
- Environmental systems
- Landing gear systems
- Fire protection systems
- Aerodynamic control and protection systems