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Is the aircraft in this image real?
I am 100% sure this is fake.
I found the same picture on Twitter in a tweet from April 28,2020 , but in higher resolution:
You can see the registration on the aircraft clearly: D-AVXA. This ...
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How can Ural Airlines fly an A320 from an unpaved field after an emergency landing?
TLDR: cold winter will freeze the ground and make it hard enough.
First, there was a similar case of Alrosa flight 514 that landed on a disused runway in Izhma in September 2010, was fixed and flew to ...
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Is the aircraft in this image real?
The question has already been thoroughly answered by DeltaLima, I'll just add that the original, unaltered, photo by Lars Hentschel can be found here:
https://www.airliners.net/photo/IndiGo/Airbus-...
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What is the essential purpose of making three control laws in Airbus aircraft?
It is pretty simple: if everything works, no malfunctions, no false signals, then the aircraft is in normal law. You have all the stability and protections that Airbus intended the aicraft to be ...
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How can a pilot fly a descent angle of 4° in an A320?
You're in luck: the Airbus A320 flight director has a special mode for exactly this: TRK/FPA (track and flight path angle):
(image source)
When you are on final approach, press the HDG V/S - TRK FPA ...
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Is there usually vertical movement between the wing and fuselage?
While all structures have some compliance, for all purposes, no. The wing-body join is going to be an extremely rigid set of fittings with numerous bolts attaching them.
The wing itself is quite ...
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What is the max landing altitude of the Airbus A320 family?
According to the EASA (EU Aviation Safety Agency) type certification of the Airbus A320 series (which you can find here), the A320 family is certified to land at airports with an elevation of up to 14,...
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Why does the pilot need to manually retard the thrust levers in an A320?
On Airbus aircraft¹, the "RETARD" callout occurs just before touchdown and acts as a reminder² for the pilot to put the thrust levers to idle. Regardless of whether the AP/AT is engaged or ...
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What’s the purpose of the small “hole” in front of wing root on A320-214?
My company's A320 also have that mystery hole. After a thorough search, it's the vent outlet hole for dumping the forward cargo compt air overboard, through the extraction fan (6HN) and outlet ...
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How can I determine the fuel temperature in the tanks of an Airbus A320 during climb?
When a body at a certain temperature $T_i$ is blown upon by air at temperature $T_{air}$ there's an exchange of heat per second $\dot{Q}$ (in Watt) which is:
$\dot{Q}=hA(T_i -T_{air})$
where:
$A$ is ...
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How do you capture the localizer in an A320?
On the MCDU F-PLN page, select the arrival airport (LSK6L) and then select ARRIVAL (LSK1R). Then select the ILS approach you intend to fly. Make sure the ILS approach is now shown under APPR, e.g.:
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on the airbus A320 does applying rudder and tiller sum up?
on the airbus A320 while taxing, does applying rudder and tiller sum up the turn?
Yes. The pedal order is summed together with the commands from the two tillers. However, a pushbutton installed on ...
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Why can some aircraft not fly near the north pole?
You don't get a valid heading and track angle. Each ADIRU model has different characteristics and limitation. This is an example from an FCOM that I have:
Special flights can fly in these conditions, ...
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Could what happened to Yeti Airlines Flight 691 happen on an Airbus or Boeing?
The crash of Yeti Airlines Flight 691 on 15 January 2023 was caused by the PM inadvertently moving the propeller condition controls to the feathered position while attempting to set the flaps lever to ...
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Why does the A320 have APU separate MASTER SW and START buttons?
Are there cases that the APU MASTER SW is used but not the Start PB?
Yes: diagnosis, emergency, and maintenance.
Diagnosis
Turning on the APU master switch without pressing the start button triggers ...
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Why descend after a single engine failure in an Airbus?
Your simulation is almost certainly flawed. For example, an Airbus A320 that loses an engine at Fl330 must descend. There is the single-engine ceiling at which a plane can maintain speed and altitude ...
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Why is a level off required for flap retraction after a single engine failure?
In a nutshell: the aircraft has lost 50% of thrust capacity, and you can either choose to make a shallow climb, or accelerate in level flight to retract the flaps. Unless the aircraft is very light, ...
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Why is a level off required for flap retraction after a single engine failure?
The climb segments defined in the FARs or European equivalent are used for certification purposes. The different climb segments are designed to allow the engineers the ability to easily calculate ...
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How is Airbus A320 cockpit philosophy designed?
I'm not specialized in Airbus, but here is a general answer for a part of your question:
The logic in cargo smoke panel is such, that the black button is an indicator. If smoke is detected by both ...
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Why do you need to pull HDG knob a320 for selected mode?
When you are in NAV mode the heading indication on the FCU is normally dashed (---*). Then, if you just rotate the knob it first synchronizes the heading to the current heading, then displays the ...
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What is the reason for aircraft AC power supply neutral wire not connected to chassis GND?
Electrical engineering question, but here is the idea.
In short
The usual earthing/grounding scheme used in large aircraft is TN-C. T indicates the source has its neutral connected to earth (ground). ...
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How can the A320 receive 3 DME signals if it has only 2 DME receivers?
My FCOM says:
Each FMGC automatically uses its five DME frequencies as follows:
One DME frequency for display. It is possible to tune it manually or automatically.
Two DME frequencies in DME/DME ...
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How is Airbus A320 cockpit philosophy designed?
I'm not into cockpit design so here is just a (partly) educated guess for the main layout.
If you do "boot" the plane from Dark-Start up of the plane you have to check, if all white "...
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How can I determine the fuel temperature in the tanks of an Airbus A320 during climb?
The fuel temperatures in the wing fuel tanks are displayed to the pilots on the ECAM (electronic centralized aircraft monitor) FUEL page below the fuel quantity indications. Pilots can select this ...
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What is the essential purpose of making three control laws in Airbus aircraft?
Firstly I want to say it's not just Airbus FBW Aircraft that has 3 primary FBW laws/modes. Boeing also has 3 modes for their FBW 777 and 787; Normal mode, Secondary Mode, and finally Direct mode. The ...
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How does a trailing edge flap move on an Airbus A320?
If you compare the picture of the B737 in the answer you linked with the one of an A320, you'll see that both set of flaps move in the same way while deploying (see arrow):
(B737 belly, source)
(...
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Why is a level off required for flap retraction after a single engine failure?
Other types can make low rate climbs while accelerating on one engine. eg B767 SOP is Vertical Speed +200 at low and medium weights once terrain clearance has been achieved. At heavy weights VS +100 ...
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On the A321neo, what determines the 'time to land' when an Additional Center Tank System Fault is triggered?
The reason for that flight time is due to the CG limitations.
I don't have data from the 3 ACTs, but I found this revision of the AFM document of the A321 with 2 ACTs from FAA regarding this (link). ...
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