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What Does Avionics Refer To?
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Avionics refers to electronic systems on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft that provide communications, navigation and guidance, display systems, flight management systems, sensors and indicators, weather radars, electrical systems, and various computers onboard modern aircraft and spacecraft.
It includes hundreds of systems fitted to aircraft to meet individual roles. These can be as simple as a searchlight for a police helicopter or as complicated as the tactical system for an airborne early warning platform. The word avionics is a combination of aviation and electronics.
Aircraft avionics
The cockpit of an aircraft is a major location for avionic equipment, including control, monitoring, communication, navigation, weather, and anti-collision systems. The majority of aircraft drive their avionics using 14 or 28 volt DC electrical systems; however, large, more sophisticated aircraft (such as airlines or military combat aircraft) have AC systems operating at 115V 400 Hz, rather than the more common 50 and 60 Hz of European and North American, respectively, home electrical devices. There are several major vendors of flight avionics, including Honeywell (which now owns BendixKing, Baker Electronics, Allied Signal, etc..), Rockwell Collins and Avidyne.
Communications connect the flight deck to the ground and the flight deck to the passengers. Onboard communications are provided by public address systems and aircraft intercoms. The VHF aviation communication system works on the air band from 118.000 MHz to 136.975 MHz. Each channel is spaced from the adjacent by 8.33 kHz. amplitude modulation (AM) is used. The conversation is performed in simplex mode. Aircraft communication can also take place using HF (especially for trans-oceanic flights) or satellite communication.
Navigation is the determination of position and direction on or above the surface of the Earth. Avionics can use satellite-based systems (such as GPS and WAAS), ground-based systems (such as VOR or LORAN), or any combination thereof. Older avionics required a pilot or navigator to plot the intersection of signals on a paper map to determine an aircraft's location; modern systems, like the Bendix/King KLN 90B, calculate the position automatically and display it to the flight crew on moving map displays.
