Preliminary Flashcards by Zoe Campbell

What engineering items are check in preliminary?

Techlog and MEL’s.

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How long do you press the RCL button?

At least 3 sec

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Which buttons should you press for liquid levels in preliminary?

HYD, ENG and DOOR

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What emergency procedures should be checked in preliminary?

OEB, particularly red and more particularly red to be applied before an ecam

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What outlines oxygen level when below a threshold and what should you do?

Amber box and call maintenance to refill

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How long to turn IRS off for a complete alignment?

5 sec (amber on bat comes on)

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What items should be checked in performance data check?

Runway, shift, speeds, flap, flex, green dot, engine out accel, icing and packs

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FMGES Prep boxed fields must be what?

Filled

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What colour fields inform flight crew that entry is permitted?

Blue

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What colour are FMS generated data and cannot be changed?

Green

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What limits are magenta that the FMS will attempt to meet?

Speed, altitude and time

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What do yellow characters mean?

Temporary flight plan

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What does amber signify?

Important item that needs action

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What size font signifies FMS computed data?

Small

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What size font signifies manually entered data?

Large

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On data, which items should be checked on the status page? X3

Database validity, stored navies and waypoints to clear and peer factor

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What do you check on INIT A?

Current position- gate

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What should you check in FPL?

Runway, SID, alt and speed constraints, correct transition to cruise waypoint, step climb

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What three things go in Sec?

Return to land, alternate takeoff runway, takeoff alternate

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How do you deselect a u/s navaid?

Data/position monitor/sel navaid

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Entering CG/ZFW and block fuel in INIT B, causes what?

FOL computation.

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Where can you find the trio wind?

INIT B

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What page is no longer after engine start?

INIT B

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Which page is now available after start for weight and fuel data?

Fuel prediction

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Why would you put in green dot for the presel?

Sharp turn after takeoff or speed limit

When PM checks takeoff data, how does she do that?

FM to EFB glass to paper

What are the four things on preliminary to check on centre console?

Eng masters off, Engine start norm, weather radar off, PWS off

What do you check after the centre console on preliminary?

Gear up and wipers off

What three power items do you check after centre console and gear and wipers?

Batteries/external power and APU

What do you check on batteries

Auto

What do you check with external power ?

What do you have to check befor APU test/start?

RMP/ACP on and set

What do you do before turning on APU?

Test

Can you do the test if APU is already on?

Yes

What do you do after you test the APU?

Start it

What do you do after you start the APU?

Set air cond panel

What do you potentially disconnect after the APU is on and air con set?

External power

After the FO has sorted out the power, what do they do?

All IR modes to NAV

What does FO do after IR to nav?

Cockpit lights bright and check three strikes?

Who else just cockpit lights?

Captain

What does the captain do after checking the flight deck lights?

Accepts the aircraft.

What

What 5 things does captain check to accept the aircraft?

RCL 3 seconds, logbook, Mel/cdl, aircraft configuration summary, OEB

After aircraft acceptance, what’s next?

Preliminary performance determination

What do you check after preliminary takeoff data check?

Before walk around checks

What are the three liquids you check before walk around?

Oxy Hyd Oil

Which SD for oxygen?

Door

What lever positions are you checking before walk around?

Flap and speed brake

What are the four brake items before walk around?

Accu pressure Park brake handle Brake pressure Alternate braking

What are the four things to check around the flight deck?

Gear pins and covers Door Emergency equipment Security

Putting it all together what are the 4 general areas PM is to check before walk around ?

Liquids Levers Brakes Flight deck

What do you say to ground before brake check?

Confirm clear to pressurise hydraulic and chocks in place

If aircraft hasn’t been electrically powered for 6 or more hours what do you check ?

Bat 1&2 and APU bat off

25.5v ensures charge above how much?

50%

Which position should selector be left in bat 1/2 or APU after checking?

APU to avoid discharge of bat 1/2

If battery voltage is at or below 25.5V charging cycle of about how long is required?

20 mins

How do you charge batteries?

Bat1/2 and APU on and external power on

What should you check to ensure charging of batteries?

Elec dc page battery contacts closed and batteries charging

After charging batteries, what do you do?

You turn bats off and check above 25.5V (then selector back to APU)

If batteries are above 25.5v what do you do ?

Bat 1/2 APU auto

If the aircraft is supplied by batteries only for 5 mins or more what will happen?

The ground horn will sound and the ventilation extract fault light will come on along with an ecam message.

Not applicable to EBA-EBD When the aircraft is supplied by batteries only and the safety valve is detected open, what is triggered?

Safety valve open caution

How do you treat safety valve open caution when batteries only are supplying power on ground?

Disregard and continue cockpit prep

If aircraft has been powered in last six hours, what would FO do?

Bat 1/2 APU auto

If APU to be started on battery only, what does FO check ?

Bat1/2 APU above 23.5V

After checking battery power, what does FO look for on external power?

Avail

If avail light is on external power, what does FO do after checking batteries?

Turn on

If only one external power is available the ground personnel should connect which one ?

External power A

External power B does not supply ground/flt buses without powering what?

The entire aircraft network

Simultaneous use of ext B and what is not possible ?

APU gen

If avail does not come on (ext pwr connected) or on/avail go out during ext pwr operation, the GPSU protection trips. What do you press to reset?

External power

What do you check on the RMP befor the APU test?

RMP1&2 on Green nav light out Select light off Comm frequencies tune

What do you check on on the ACP before APU test?

INT volume on out up. VHF HF after fuelling

APU fire checks ?

Fire PB switching and guarded APU agent off Test button

How long for APU test button?

Less than 3 sec

What is APU fire warning?

Ecam, crc, master warning

What else to check in addition to APU fire warning on test ?

APU fire PB lights red Squib light and discharge light on

APU may be delayed until before start unless cabin temp exceeds what?

27deg

What displays when APU master switch on?

APU system display page

How long to wait if first start unsuccessful?

3 mins

How long to wait after 3 unsuccessful APU starts?

60 min

When APU is available what next?

APU bleed on

How can you determine if ground air is connected?

Bleed SD page - pressure in the bleed air system

after APU bleed on, what do you check ?

White lights are out

After APU bleed on. , white lights are out, you check what?

Crossbleed auto

After cross bleed auto what do you check ?

Cabin and cockpit temps

What is the full range temperature for cabin and flight deck and what is recommended setting ?

24 deg is 12 o’clock and recommended +~6 deg either side.

After cabin and cockpit temps set what to do?

External power as required

When is it particularly important to leave external power on to assist APU ?

Hot weather

After APu/external power organized, what do you set?

All IR to NAV

When must full alignment be performed?

First flight Crew change 2deg north or south GPS n/a and poor navaid coverage or flight time >3hrs.

After IRs aligned, what do you do?

Both capt and FO do lights including int, flood and integ

What does pressing RCL for >3sec?

Recalls all warnings that flight crew cancelled or cleared on previous flight.

Takeoff performance data is checked before entering and also how after ?

Glass to paper

Where do you find minimum oxygen for flight crew required?

From limitations and RMS

What is minimum pressure for a330 crew oxygen?

1330psi

Eng SD page oil quantity minimum?

12quarts + estimated consumption

What is oil estimated consumption?

0.56 quarts/hour

What pump to recharge brake accumulator if not in green ?

Blue elec

What brake temps should you avoid using park brake?

500deg or 350 with fans on

What should you say to engineer before alternate brake check ?

Confirm clearance to pressurise hydraulics and confirm chocks in place.

For alternate brake check what are you checking as you apply full pressure?

Symmetrical brake pressure of 2200-2700psi

What are you checking for emergency equipment?

LJ, gloves, portable oxygen, oxygen masks, crash axe, bcf, torches and ER

What lights do you check before door?

ANN lt open and fault and three strikes

If any landing gear door is open for walk around what should you do?

Get ground clearance code operating hydraulic power.

On the preliminary cockpit preparations aircraft set up what * items are there?

Weather radar and PWS off

What battery and APU checks are *?

When apu available air con set and external power as required.

What don’t you have to do for bat/apu *?

Battery check and APU fire checks

What ADIRS * are there?

All IRs to nav

Is computer lights a *?

Yep

What aircraft acceptance does captain not need to do for a *?

Configuration summary

Before walk around what does PM not have to check ?

Flaps Alternate braking Emergency equipment Door.

So before walk around PM still has to do what ?

Pins, security

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