Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00150:reg:1:p13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00150
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 13/29)
Character Range: 151513–163418

Equipment Lists, Minimum Equipment List, Dispatch Deviation Lists;
    Airworthiness Directives;
    Service bulletins, manufacturers' service information;
    Modification and repairs;
    Maintenance documentation: maintenance manuals, structural repair manuals, illustrated parts catalogue, etc.
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    Continuing airworthiness;
    Minimum equipment requirements — test flights;
    ETOPS, maintenance and dispatch requirements;
    All weather operations: categories 2 and 3 operations.

Module 11A Turbine aeroplane aerodynamics, structures and systems

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A1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         B1.1  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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 1     2                                    —
Speed of sound, subsonic flight, transonic flight, supersonic flight;
Mach number, critical Mach number, compressibility buffet, shockwave, aerodynamic heating, area rule;
Factors affecting airflow in engine intakes of high-speed aircraft;
Effects of sweepback on critical Mach number.
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, stabiliser, pylon and undercarriage attachments;
Seat installation and cargo loading system;
Doors and emergency exits: construction, mechanisms, operation and safety devices;
Windows and windscreen construction and mechanisms.
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)
11.4.1   Air supply                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1     2                                    —
Sources of air supply, including engine bleed, APU and ground cart.
11.4.2   Air-conditioning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1     3                                    —
Air-conditioning systems;
Air