Aircraft systems is a complex system. In the design stage and in the flight and maintenance manuals (used by pilot and maintenance technicians) it is broken down into simpler systems that carry out homogeneous functions. Some examples include but are not limited to:
- Electrical
- Hydraulics
- Oxygen
- Fuel
- Propulsion
- Navigation
- Flight controls
- Ice protection (antiicing and deicing)
- Cooling System
it is Controls and displays in the cockpit panels are usually grouped by system.
Introduction to Aircraft system is one of the subjects for the degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol.
Aircraft systems and their operations are described in the Flight Manual of the Aircraft (the so called -1 in Military slang) in part 1.
Famous quotes containing the word systems:
“The only people who treasure systems are those whom the whole truth evades, who want to catch it by the tail. A system is just like truth’s tail, but the truth is like a lizard. It will leave the tail in your hand and escape; it knows that it will soon grow another tail.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)