Machine-translated by Google. Questions are authored in English.
Top

Discussion

Multiple attitude and heading reference units are fitted to an aircraft so that

  • A.Each unit can serve a different display
  • B.Power consumption can be shared
  • C.A failed unit can be excluded
  • D.The average of all units is more accurate

Answer: C

Correct answer: A failed unit can be excluded

Multiple units are fitted for fault tolerance. Two units allow a disagreement to be detected, and three allow the odd one out to be identified by median voting and excluded, so the system continues on the two that agree rather than reverting to no attitude reference at all.

The redundancy is not there to share power or to serve separate displays - a single unit can drive several - and averaging is the wrong operation, since a large error in one unit would drag the average with it. The purpose is to survive a failure, not to improve accuracy.

No comment is present. Be the first to comment.
Loading…

Post your comment

Please log in or register to post a comment.