AVIONICS

Course Objectives:
The course should enable the students to understand the needs of avionics for both Civil and Military aircraft, introduce various digital electronic principles and working operations of digital circuit, integrate the digital electronics with cockpit equipment, understand the various principles in flight desk and cockpit panels and study the communication and navigation equipment.

1. Introduction to Avionics (8 Hours)
1. Need for Avionics
2. Components Overview
3. Systems that Interact with the Pilot
4. Fly-By-Wire, Flight Management and Autopilot Systems
5. Sensors Systems
6. Task Automation Systems
7. Overview of Aircraft Stability and Control
2. Cockpit Displays and Human-Machine Interface (8 Hours)
1. Functions of the Cockpit Systems
2. Primary Flight Display
3. Analog Display Systems in the Cockpit
4. Flight Control Instruments (Side-Stick, Yoke, Throttle, Pedal, etc.)
5. Analog Controls
6. Fly-By-Wire System
3. Basic Navigation Systems (4 hours)
1. Principle of Navigation System
2. Types of Navigation Systems- Position Fixing and Dead-Reckon
4. Fly-By-Wire System, Autopilot and Flight Management (4 Hours)
1. Fly-By-System Architecture and Data Handling
2. Failure Safety and Triplex/Quadruplex Redundancies
3. Flight Management and Housekeeping
4. Data Fusion
5. Communication and NavigationSystems-I (16 Hours)
1. Fundamentals of
1. Radio Wave Propagation
2. Antennas and transmission lines
3. Communication
4. Receiver and transmitter
2. Working principle of following systems
1. VHF Communication
2. HF Communication
3. Audio Systems
4. ELT ( Emergency Locator Transmitter)
5. CVR ( Cockpit Voice Recorder)
6. VOR ( Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range)
7. ADF ( Automatic Direction Finding)
8. ILS ( Instrument Landing System)
9. DME ( Distance Measuring Equipment)
6. Communication and Navigation System-II (8 Hours)
1. Working principle of following systems
1. VLF/ Omega ( Very low frequency and hyperbolic navigation)
2. Doppler Navigation
3. Area Navigation , RNAV System
4. FMS ( Flight Management System)
5. GPS ( Global Positioning System)
6. GNSS Satellite System
7. Inertial Navigation System
8. ATC Transponder, Secondary Surveillance Radar
9. TCAS ( Traffic Alert and Collisions Avoidance System)
10. Weather Avoidance Radar
11. Radio Altimeter
12. ARINC Communication and Reporting

Laboratory/ Project Works:
Practical means project work and report have to be submitted at the end of the course. The report should be around 20-30 pages plus appendix.

• Case study
• Site visit

Evaluation Scheme:
There will be questions covering all the chapters in the syllabus. The evaluation scheme for the questions will be indicated in the table below: