On 30/05/2011, at 8:18 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > So hopefully when the computers went off line the back up display worked from > the gyros and accelerometers? With the quality of the gyros and > accelerometers they would be using the attitude display at least ought to > work usefully for some minutes at least, without air data inputs.
The ISIS is another electronic system, not a gyro-based steam-gauge system. It takes data from the third set of pitot/static probes. If they're iced over, then the ISIS doesn't work. - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [email protected] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 -----
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