General System Operation: Pressurisation
General System Operation: Pressurisation
General System Operation: Pressurisation
Pressurisation
The oxygen system utilises stored high pressure oxygen which is delivered to all occupants at low
pressure through delivery masks stored either in the cockpit for the crew or in the ceiling of the cabin for
all passengers.
Conquest crew Conquest passenger
oxygen mask oxygen mask storage
The oxygen cylinder used in the Conquest is stored in the tail
section of the aircraft directly behind the rear pressure
bulkhead.
It is available in two sizes, the first being the standard 11.0 Cu.
Ft cylinder with an optional 114.9 Cu. Ft cylinder which is the
size fitted to the entire FLIGHT.ORG AIR Conquest fleet.
A filler valve is fitted to the underside of the tail section of the aircraft for servicing of the oxygen
cylinder with the cylinder pressure being shown on a pressure guage located on the right hand side of the
instrument panel in the cockpit.
If the green disc is missing, then a new disc must be fitted and
the system recharged before flight.
Flight Controls::The Conquest is fitted with manually actuated
and manually trimmed primary flight controls.
The flight controls are locked by a control column pin which is inserted after flight with an external
rudder lock being provided at the base of the rudder on the left hand side of the tail cone.
The primary flight controls are manually trimmed with all three
axes capable of trimming in flight.
The trim wheels are all located on the centre pedestal and utilise
mechanical pointers for pre flight inspection from inside the
cockpit of trim tab positions.
power-assisted controls
power-assisted controls
In this system hydraulic power will assist the pilot in moving the
controls. The pilot will still get feed back of the air loads imposed
on the control.
In the event of hydraulic failure the pilot can still operate the
control.
Manual and power assisted flying controls are known as
reversible flying controls.
Aircraft with reversible flight controls should be fitted with a
gust lock (flying control lock).
Some systems can modify this to give lower control forces at high
speed (feel proportional only to EAS) or high control forces at
high speed (control forces proportional to EAS^3). In the pitch
control system 'g' feel is sometimes used which increases control
forces as the load factor increases. Artificial feel may also be
referred to as a 'force gradient unit'.
Gear Change: