Is it a dream or a nightmare?


Actually the A380 only have two independent hydraulic channels, yellow and green with each channel pressurised by four engine driven pumps (only two is required) at 5000 psi though it is supplemented by several Electrical-Hydrostatic Actuators (EHAs) and Electrical Backup Hydraulic Actuators (EBHAs) as well.

You also have four main engine driven Alternating Current (AC) generators providing 115 Volts Alternating Current (VAC) at 150 kilovolt-ampere (kVA) each to four independent AC buses (AC 1 to AC 4), not to mention the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) with two AC generators providing 115 VAC at 120 KVA each and ultimately, the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) is there to ensure the EHAs and EBHAs do not go offline by providing electrical power to a separate AC Essential (AC ESS) and a AC Emergency (AC EMER) bus.

IF ALL OF THE ABOVE FAILS with the possibility that you may strike the first prize lottery 14 days in a row, the A380 will hopefully degrade gracefully from normal flight control law to alternate or even direct flight control law giving the pilot enough time to land with differential engine thrust before plunging to the ground.
Just to further add on, if information on hand is accurate. The flight that cks2k2 was on didn't just have a hydraulic failure but a multiple system failure affecting or involving the Automatic Flight Guidance System (AFGS) and Flight Management System (FMS) as well?

Theoretically in such an event, the flight control law should have degraded from normal to alternate knocking off the Load Alleviation Function (LAF) thus a flight through turbulent airspace might be exceptionally bumpy.
 

BRo, are you a electrial eng?

i suspect 9v Orion is a Siaec LAME . Or was .

nine victors are sg registered civil aircraft
 

He's an aircraft engineer

9 victor>>> a type of aircraft

it is like car plate.car plate begin with S is sg car. aircraft begin with 9V is sg aircraft. observe the next time you take sg airline see can see on the tail or not
 

Shizuma said:
it is like car plate.car plate begin with S is sg car. aircraft begin with 9V is sg aircraft. observe the next time you take sg airline see can see on the tail or not

Whoops. I stand corrected xD
 

Orion is a constellation so that makes him an astronaut? :)
 

Apparently due to Yuasa battery malfunction.

We did not say it.

The Japanese themselves said it was a .......

(Photo credit: photo snapshot off a NHK World News broadcast dated 22 January 2013)

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