Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00150:reg:1:p16
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Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 16/29)
Character Range: 182309–189473

electronic library mass storage and controller. But they do not include units or components installed for other uses and shared with other systems, such as flight deck printer or general use display.
Typical examples include the following:
      * air traffic and information management systems
      * network server systems
      * aircraft general information system
      * flight deck information system
      * maintenance information system
      * passenger cabin information system
      * miscellaneous information system.

Module 11B Piston aeroplane aerodynamics, structures and systems

Note   The scope of this module must reflect the technology of aeroplanes relevant to a subcategory A2, or B1.2, aircraft engineer licence.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Level of knowledge for the category
A2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             B1.2  B2
11.1   Theory of flight                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   —
11.1.1   Aeroplane aerodynamics and flight controls                                                                                                                                                                                                            1     2
Operation and effect of the following:
      * roll control: ailerons and spoilers
      * pitch control: elevators, stabilators, variable incidence stabilisers and canards
      * yaw control, rudder limiters;
Control using elevons, ruddervators;
High-lift devices, slots, slats, flaps, flaperons;
Drag-inducing devices, spoilers, lift dumpers, speed brakes;
Effects of wing fences, sawtooth leading edges;
Boundary layer control, using vortex generators, stall wedges or leading-edge devices;
Operation and effect of trim tabs, balance and anti-balance (leading) tabs, servo tabs, spring tabs, mass balance, control surface bias, aerodynamic balance panels.
11.1.2   High-speed flight – N/A                                                                                                                                                                                                                               —     —                                    —
11.2   Airframe structures — general concepts
(a)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2     2                                    —
    Airworthiness requirements for structural strength;
    Structural classification, primary, secondary and tertiary;
    Fail-safe, safe-life and damage-tolerance concepts;
    Zonal and station identification systems;
    Stress, strain, bending, compression, shear, torsion, tension, hoop stress, fatigue;
    Drains and ventilation provisions;
    System installation provisions;
    Lightning-strike protection provision;
    Aircraft bonding;
(b)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1     2                                    —
    Construction methods of stressed-skin fuselage, formers, stringers, longerons, bulkheads, frames, doublers, struts, ties, beams, floor structures, reinforcement, methods of skinning, anti-corrosive protection, wing, empennage and engine attachments;
    Structure assembly techniques: riveting, bolting, bonding;
    Methods of surface protection, such as chromating, anodising, painting;
    Surface cleaning;
    Airframe symmetry: methods of alignment and symmetry checks.
11.3   Airframe structures — aeroplanes
11.3.1   Fuselage (ATA52/53/56)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1     2                                    —
Construction and pressurisation sealing;
Wing, tailplane, pylon and undercarriage attachments;
Seat installation;
Doors and emergency exits: construction and operation;
Windows and windscreen attachment.
11.3.2   Wings (ATA57)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         1     2                                    —
Construction;
Fuel storage;
Landing gear, pylon, control surface and high-lift/drag attachments.
11.3.3   Stabilisers (ATA55)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1     2                                    —
Construction;
Control surface attachment.
11.3.4   Flight control surfaces (ATA55/57)                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1     2                                    —
Construction and attachment;
Balancing — mass and aerodynamic.
11.3.5   Nacelles and pylons (ATA54)                                                                                                                                                                                                                           1     2                                    —
Construction;
Firewalls
Engine mounts.
11.4   Air-conditioning and cabin pressurisation (ATA21)                                                                                                                                                                                                       1     3                                    —
Pressurisation and air-conditioning systems;
Cabin pressure controllers;
Protection and warning devices;
Heating systems.
11.5   Instruments and avionic systems
11.5.1   Instrument systems (ATA31)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1     2                                    —
Pitot static: