Lombardo D. Advanced Aircraft Systems 1993

Textbook in PDF format

This book was written to support FAA Airway Science Program and should help reciprocating-engine pilots prepare for the transition to turbine-powered aircraft. The book is intended to be a primer on turboprop and turbojet aircraft systems; it is not flight deck oriented. Avionics, flight deck instrumentation, specific operating procedures, and other operationally oriented details are intentionally omitted.
It is the intent of this book to give the reader a basic understanding of what individual systems are designed to do, and how they do it.
It is not the intent of this book to teach pilots how to fly turbine-powered aircraft. Pilots transitioning to turbine equipment need to receive type training in the specific aircraft to which they are transitioning.
The book may be read cover-to-cover or used as a reference manual. All basic system descriptions are essentially generic. They are intended to give the reader a basic understanding of how typical systems operate.
Hopefully this text will help pilots transition to more complex aircraft as well as help them gain a better understanding of that awesome mystery we call flight.
- Principles of electricity;
- Electrical systems;
- Turbine engines;
- Lubrication and cooling systems;
- Aircraft propellers;
- Hydraulic and pneumatic systems;
- Fuel systems;
- Environmental systems;
- Landing gear systems;
- Fire protection systems;
- Aerodynamic control and protection systems