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C* - An unknown star
C* (pronounced „C-Star“), is one of the dominant digital flight control laws for Fly-By-Wire (FBW) transport aircraft. It has its roots...
Andreas
Oct 15, 2018


A magnetic disorder
When a 200-million-dollar passenger jet approaches a major airport somewhere on this planet and receives some directions from air traffic...
Andreas
Oct 2, 2018


A new approach
It used to be simple: There were „non-precision“ and „precision“ approaches. But things have changed quite a bit. The advent of...
Andreas
Sep 23, 2018


Tight turns
This post covers some basic aspects about optimizing turn performance. While we perform turns on a daily basis, they do not necessary get...
Andreas
Sep 13, 2018


Circuit breakers (CB's)
There are two common misbeliefs associated with aircraft circuit breakers: One relates to resetting a tripped CB, the other refers to why...
Andreas
Sep 3, 2018
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