They´re usually taken for granted, as critical to aircraft operation as they are – the glass (which is actually not glass, as we´ll see later) that separates the comfortable...
There are a number of mechanisms on every aircraft which enable the pilot to control it. These flight controls are divided into primary and secondary control surfaces.
The primaries direct...
With its multiplicity of liquid-crystal displays along with and joysticks and soft keys to manipulate them, EFIS offers more information than the old analogue system and at the same time makes it much more visually intuitive, easy to interpret, and with a greatly reduced margin of error.