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FBW [2 records]

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Record 1 2018-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
  • Helicopters (Military)
CONT

In a FBW system, when [the pilot] moves the controls, he is merely telling the flight control computer what he wants the aircraft to do; the computer then issues the necessary orders (through a data-bus system) to make it happen. Such a system must have sensors plugged into it to tell the computer what the pilot of an ordinary aircraft will know by feel. In today's FBW aircraft, "feel" is then put back into the controls artificially ...

OBS

fly-by-wire flight control system: term officially approved by the Aeronautical Terminology Standardization Committee (ATSC) - Helicopters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Hélicoptères (Militaire)
CONT

En combat aérien rapproché, la manœuvrabilité exceptionnelle du Mirage 200 (due à ses commandes de vol électriques et à la conception aérodynamique avancée de son aile delta), [...] lui permet d'assurer une protection totale de l'espace aérien [...]

OBS

système de commandes de vol électriques : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Hélicoptères.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Maneuvers
CONT

The only means of message transmission fast enough [for the piloting of an unstable combat aircraft] is to send an electrical signal from the flight control computer to an actuator mounted immediately in front of the control surface in question : hence the term fly-by-wire.

OBS

fly-by-wire; FBW: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Manœuvres d'aéronefs
DEF

Système de pilotage dans lequel la timonerie mécanique entre pilote et vérins de commande est remplacée intégralement, sans commande de secours mécanique, par une transmission électrique avec interposition d'un calculateur analogique ou numérique.

OBS

commande de vol électrique : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

commande de vol électrique : terme uniformisé par l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale (OACI) et par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mandos de vuelo (Industria aeronáutica)
  • Maniobras de las aeronaves
OBS

mandos de vuelo eléctricos: término aceptado oficialmente por la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI).

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