Glass Cockpit

Prévia do material em texto

UNIVERSIDADE FUMEC 
FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA E ARQUITETURA - FEA 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Níkolas Brandão Bilalis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INGLÊS DE AVIAÇÃO I: 
Glass cockpit 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Belo Horizonte 
Outubro de 2015 
Níkolas Brandão Bilalis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INGLÊS DE AVIAÇÃO I: 
Glass Cockpit 
 
 
 
 
Trabalho autoinstrucional, 
apresentado à Faculdade de 
Engenharia e Arquitetura da 
Universidade Fumec como 
requisito parcial para a 
conclusão da disciplina Inglês de 
Aviação I. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Belo Horizonte 
Outubro de 2015 
 RESUME 
 
The glass cockpit technology was implemented by the middle of the 2000 with 
the intention of make the cockpit a more “clean” and organized place. It will be 
seen the reaction in the general aviation field of the new implemented 
technology and the improvements that it brought. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SUMMARY 
 
Introduction........................................................................................................04 
Glass cockpit......................................................................................................05 
Conclusion.........................................................................................................06 
References.........................................................................................................07 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
Since the glass cockpit was implemented with his very useful and kind of 
revolutionary innovations, some levels of aircraft accidents that was using the glass 
cockpit has enhanced. The present work seeks to find out why and how to deal with 
it. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5 
 
GLASS COCKPIT 
 
It is a digital primary flight displays technology. Its development started with 
the NASA after that in the 70's, the aircrafts cockpits was getting too full of bars, 
indicators and symbols which were competing by the pilot's attention. In mid-2000 
was released in large use in executive jets and military aircrafts. The implementation 
of this technology has as advantage the fact that it contributes to decrease the used 
space in the cockpit and make it more organized. By the other side has as 
disadvantages facts like the possibility of the whole system turn off letting the pilots 
without any information as has happened in several episodes, and the new system 
isn't so easy to manage. How it was studied, is needed an effective training about 
how to operate the system. So the crew can manage well the complete functionality 
of the glass cockpit technology, as to know how to behave in failure situations. A 
study of the NTSB showed that after the massive implantation of the glass cockpit in 
light aircrafts in USA which occurred after 2003, the numbers of accidents involving 
aircrafts with glass cockpit was much greater than aircrafts equipped with the usual 
instruments. The causes were assigned to the facts just mentioned above, possibility 
of failure and lack of training. Today, to better this scenario the responsible 
authorities for the subject are requiring the manufacturers provide appropriate 
manuals and pushing for the proper training occur. About the technology, nowadays, 
the thing is evolving, like everything else. There is the G1000, is one type of glass 
cockpit whose configurations are adaptable at a lot of hardware and software, in 
other words, it can be used by several types of aircrafts. Others recent technology 
innovations are the Primus Epic, Datalink and Pro Line Fusion, don’t mentioning that 
all of these current systems are made with touch screen technology. These cited 
innovations are between other things respectively able of give a infrared vision of the 
terrain to pilots, enhance the communication in remotes areas of the world, giving 
flight data to flight controllers as the radars do, and provide the most important flight 
information to the pilot in the horizon line, just in front of him, avoiding the need of 
down the eyes for check. 
 
 
 
6 
 
CONCLUSION 
 
After studying the glass cockpit was possible to realize that this technology is 
a good advance in aviation world despite of the accidents that occurred involving the 
very same technology, once the causes of the failures was identified and worked 
aiming to have the problem solved, highlighting that the established procedures to 
make a good use of it, which are to have the proper study and training, must be 
followed. 
. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7 
 
REFERENCES 
 
KOLLY, J. Safety Study Report: Introduction of Glass Cockpit Avionics into 
Light Aircraft. In: National Transportation Safety Board. Office of Research and 
Engineering. 2010. Disponível em: 
<http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2010_Glass_Cockpit_Intro_and_Desc
ription_JK.pdf>. Acesso em 10, out., 2015. 
 
CONCEITO GLASS COCKPIT. Arquivos Aeronáuticos. 2010. Disponível em: 
<http://www.arquivosaeronauticos.com.br/2010/12/glass-cockpit.html>. Acesso em 
10, out., 2015.