"... we need a lot less boxes, and a lot less boxes means a lot less weight." But I've never seen so many boxes outside a Google datacenter! This is incredible stuff. You sit in your seat, watch your movie, have a snooze, and arrive. Yet all this stuff is going on beneath your feet.
Wonderful video, VERY interesting! One of my favorite things is to hear the fans and airflow of the boxes. Beautiful boxes, all working together to produce a fantastic result: We can fly over the oceans, and thanks to men like yourself. You are the key to sustained perfection! Thanks for your priceless service. When I was young and operating a TV transmitter in a big city, there were so many fans, so much cooling, wonderful sounds, this brings back great memories.
Well said. And I can relate. As an aviation enthusiast and retired television broadcast engineer there is nothing like the sound of cooling fans in a Transmitter hall. Cheers from Down Under. This video also demonstrates the other engineering disciplines involved in getting these machines into the air.
Thanks You Dennis for sharing this video .. this is one of the most comprehensive video clips showing the heart of the A350 Airbus avionics and power systems ... it's like a complete company on-prem datacenter!
Great tour thank you! As an IT guy by day, I get the familiar feeling of being in a data center when I see those equipment cages. I suppose a failure at 40000ft over the ocean is a whole different animal than a server blade failing in a DC.
Not meaning to start an A vs B drama, but the wiring looms shown here seem so much neater than that shown in another channel's tour of a 777 avionics bay.
Unglaublich, dass all diese Komponenten ohne Probleme zusammenarbeiten und das Tag und Nacht für viele Jahrzehnte ‼️😲 Sehr beeindruckend ❕👍🏼 Danke für's Zeigen 🙏🏼😊 Lieben Gruß aus Berlin 🇩🇪, Ramsi 🙋🏻♂️
Wow, I knew the A350 must have a lot of electrical components etc, but this is insane! Makes you wonder how they make sure everything is correctly connected .
Yes area isn’t clean, the air used for the cooling of the equipment is filtered. But still plenty of dust collects through the opening from above. It’s not an airtight box.
I thought, this is all included in the Cockpit, there are already millions of Buttons. But no, more tech in the Plane than in an average corporates server room. Wow. Thx for showing.
Holy crap Batman! What a crazy amount of hard/software. And that none of this is assessable during flight is a testament to the reliability of aircraft systems these days.
The Cessna 150 I learned to fly in didn't even have a USB socket! I think there WAS a 'Cigar Lighter Outlet' though! Important eh?! Incredible video and detailed information; I'm not sure if all this electrical technology makes me feel safer or more worried!
@@RahulRk-tr7otNot too far off with billions and billions. :P List price for an A350-1000 is around $360 million USD. But yeah, these things are expensive for a reason. They’re expected to work pretty much continuously with little downtime for decades.
@@ZaphodHarkonnen Hm... I am From India. so I am not very used to these Millions and billions. We use Lakhs and crores,I searched google about 350 million Usd dollars to Indian currency and it says around 3000 crore indian rupees. Which is Literally breath taking, For reference a Lamborghini Urus Top model in india cost around 4 Crore Indian rupees.👀
This is just incredible. Just wanted to ask if the crew have access to the compartment during flight. Is there even any need to access it during flight?
Unbelievably complicated, I’m glad you understand all of it. No wonder these aircraft cost so much, one wonders what happened before these high tech computers. I wonder does all this equipment get over the air updates the same as my home computer.
Are the batteries for keeping power on standby, and for bringing the systems online until the APU is started? At which point they are replenished? Something i’ve also been curious about: Do the actuators that physically move the control surfaces pull large amounts of current during pilot input, or is reduction used? They’d have to be able to respond quite quickly, though still, and reduction would seemingly slow the response of the control surfaces? Very informative video!
So you saying the computers are not behind the dashboard?? i always thought the md11 was the last one like that. i presumed all the electronics are a big box with a LCD screen, like the FMS, that you can pull out and contains the functions in one unit...
Very interesting, always wondering what all those computers on an Airbus looked like. I think it would help your video a lot if the commentary was recorded separately as a voice over (afterwards) as the loud background noise from the fans is a bit over powering ! If possible I think it would also be great to see some Airbus schematics of the equipment bay for the areas that you are looking at as you move along.
Great suggestion! But often people leave comments not to use music etc to leave to original noises in the video. I should have raised the volume if my voice a bit.
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Yep, as something of a 'musician' myself, I do hate background music on videos/tutorials as I find it a total distraction/irritation.
Salve, io ho lavorato ai sistemi di terra per il controllo del traffico aereo, (Radar, Radioassistenze, ecc.) ma a bordo dell'aereo vedo che c'è qualcosa di veramente complesso. Bellissimo ed interessante video. Grazie.
Absolutely impressive. I knew there are a lot of avionics on an airplane, just think of all the entertainment in each chair, but that much is almost ridiculous. I understand the amount of computer program lines is equally impressive. Far gone are the days of a cable to the flaps etc.
I like that the batteries are labeled with (I guess it’s the manufacturer name) „SAFT“. In German, „Saft“ (literally juice) is commonly and colloquially used to refer to electrical power, e.g. when a battery is empty, you could say (very informally) they are out of juice, they have „…keinen Saft mehr.“
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 It was founded as Société des Accumulateurs Fixes et de Traction. So French, not a German name. I like to believe that Safran is Societe Anonyme FRancease AeroNautique but I may be wrong. But then, it is French.
I never want to set foot on an airplane again. I live in the US and just cannot accept the fact that we can get enough people together with the mental fortitude to maintain something at this level of complexity never mind engineer and build it well enough to get off the ground.
Depending on what the airline has is specced for it might be missing some components like certain radios. But overall it will contain a similar amount of stuff. Just crammed into much smaller avionics bays.
It just is mindblowing people can design, manufacture and maintain such planes and reach such high safety standards ...... It's also very scary when you realize all this has to work perfectly together, each bolt, each wire, each clamp, each hose, each fitting ... each everything to get to this standard....
It's a little surprising to see how much equipment is squeezed into the area. It's also interesting that the flaps/slats have their own computer separate from the flight computer that controls the flight surfaces.
I think it is more a case of the flight control computer says 'move the flaps by to position 2' and the flap computer actually checks the current position, moves them to the new position and then checks they are in the correct position. Also if there is a failure there must be many different failure modes.
@extrude22 sure but you'd think the main flight computer which handles the other control surfaces has similar treatments to detecting position and handling failures.
It has to be as it’s in the pressure vessel. Same thing with the cargo bay which is always pressurised. It won’t get much in the way of heating from the aircon system but it is always at the same pressure as the main cabin. Same goes for basically all passenger planes.
Red light is flashing as satcom isn’t able to logon, the aircraft ADIRU’s need to be aligned so satcom knows its position. Than it will logon automatically.
There’s likely to be subtle differences in the interfaces. But yeah, once you’ve solved the problem and built the component that can handle whatever the functions are. There’s really no need to completely recreate it. Also useful for certain critical functions that you don’t want to handle certification for by rolling your own implementation. Easier to just buy the already battle tested part from an OEM and plug it into your stuff.
I have one suggestion. Do the video without the sound and do a voice over. Its hard to hear you over the noise. Very nice video and interesting to a 40 year service tech. Having worked on different equipment over the years.
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Thanks. Does a pilot ever go there? Are there instructions for the pilot in the check lists/manuaals to go there for for example pulling or checking a CB?
@@aamiddel8646 No, there would be no reason for a pilot to go there during flight. Most CB’s that would come out are monitored and would generate a warning, resets of CB are a no no in flight anyway.
From memory those will generally be installed on the main deck as it’s different for each airline and isn’t critical to aircraft operation like the items in the avionics bay.
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Yeah, except... last time I read the A320 Documentation, that's a heck of a lot of manuals to go through to get minimally acquainted with all the aircraft's navigation systems and computers... and I'm no longer in my 20s to get excited about doing that!
It's a lot to keep up with, but the functions and purpose of most components remain largely the same. Also CB’s only have the FIN and location number on the A350, no names anymore.
What i would really love to know and maybe you know about that: as s Software engineer, im used to programs running on a computer, written by code. You u have executable code, fire up the pc, execute the code. Now with these computers, and lets take maybe some simple systems, would that be the way they work or not at all? So is there some computer build in this airscraft, that has some code running that, on the deepest level, calculates something? Maybe distsnces, hights whatever?
Don’t have the knowledge of that, need to check on that, no information given about the codes in the maintenance manuals. But some kind of operation system is most likely uploaded into these boxes before application are loaded into it.
Yup, on aircraft like the A350 all the various sensors will feed into computers that make up the avionics. So all the calculations needed to figure out things like altitude, airspeed, direction, engine performance, waypoints, generating the video that goes to the electronic flight displays, etc. As noted by Dennis one of the benefits of the latest style of FBW systems and avionics is that you can cram a lot of functionality that used to be in many different boxes into just a handful. The code that runs on these systems will all be tested to various different levels for correct outputs when given weird inputs but also graceful performance degradation when things go wrong. Incidents still happen but they’re learnt from and updates put out or otherwise rolled into future designs.
If it makes you feel better there are so many layers of redundancy and graceful degradation that make it pretty hard for enough to fail while flying to be an issue. Remember it’s in the airline’s interest for their planes to keep working and not become lawn darts. :P
For flying itself not, some aluminum tubing and some covering and you can make something that can fly. Not sure you would be able to fly 300 passengers 10,000 miles safely. This can
@@extrude22Yup. Ethernet implementations aren’t tied to RJ45 jacks. They’ll use some sort of lockable connector that can be screwed down or otherwise secured. Same with all the other wire and cable connectors.
The technology developed in this aircraft is at least 15 years old. You would not find the most current technology. But aircraft will receive modifications in their lifetime, and newer models well get some upgrades technologies.
🤔 each pilot need a "personal license" for legal aeroplane use ...but the pedale are connected ...the stick is with a "controll button" , why ? - alot to ask before first simulator lesson
I Had the same thought. This looks to me like weight and space had no priority, more like a prototype using components from 50 different companys and the need for extra components to let them work together by adapting protokolls and voltages. At Tesla/SpaceX most would have been developed by themself and you would see this clearly
As this video doesn’t share any technology or technical manuals, and only give a tour with an explanation of what’s in the avionics bay I don’t think it violates anything. With a little of research you can find all of this already on the internet.
Airbus doesn’t care about this sort of video. If you could learn anything dangerous via this video that you could make use of as a normal passenger then well done.
Most thorough tour of an avionics bay I've ever seen!
"... we need a lot less boxes, and a lot less boxes means a lot less weight." But I've never seen so many boxes outside a Google datacenter! This is incredible stuff. You sit in your seat, watch your movie, have a snooze, and arrive. Yet all this stuff is going on beneath your feet.
"You hope we found it interesting..."😲
Are you serious? It is A-W-E-S-O-M-E !!! 😍 Impressive engineering into the air.
Magnificent, this is one of the best tour to see the art of complication,thanks so much for sharing this experience.
It is indeed awesome
wow, this is very complex engineering. Thank you for sharing
You're welcome!
Wonderful video, VERY interesting! One of my favorite things is to hear the fans and airflow of the boxes. Beautiful boxes, all working together to produce a fantastic result: We can fly over the oceans, and thanks to men like yourself. You are the key to sustained perfection! Thanks for your priceless service. When I was young and operating a TV transmitter in a big city, there were so many fans, so much cooling, wonderful sounds, this brings back great memories.
Well said. And I can relate. As an aviation enthusiast and retired television broadcast engineer there is nothing like the sound of cooling fans in a Transmitter hall. Cheers from Down Under. This video also demonstrates the other engineering disciplines involved in getting these machines into the air.
It's great to hear that you appreciate the sounds of the avionics bay! It the music of this video 😬
Thanks You Dennis for sharing this video .. this is one of the most comprehensive video clips showing the heart of the A350 Airbus avionics and power systems ... it's like a complete company on-prem datacenter!
Amazing amount of stuff in there!
Great tour thank you! As an IT guy by day, I get the familiar feeling of being in a data center when I see those equipment cages. I suppose a failure at 40000ft over the ocean is a whole different animal than a server blade failing in a DC.
Very interesting 😮 I never see the avionics 👍🏻😃
Super cool great tour
Not meaning to start an A vs B drama, but the wiring looms shown here seem so much neater than that shown in another channel's tour of a 777 avionics bay.
Airbus does not play funny games when they build planes, It's serious business. I feel safer flying Airbus than Boeing
Dude really?? Do you realize how much older the 777 design is? Maybe you need to look at video from 787 instead
This is good to see with sharp focus. Thank you!
There's a real data center on planes!
Thank you for this marvelous tour 👍🏼
Yes indeed! It's a marvel of modern engineering.
Great video! Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome!
thanks for showing us the avionics of A350
Glad you enjoyed it!
@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 yeah it was detained tour, tnx
Actually a very interesting insight into a modern Airbus. Thank you !
My pleasure!
All I can say is that this tour was mind-boggling....😮
Absolutely INTERESTING! Thank You for the tour!
Glad you enjoyed it
Very informative. Thanks very much Sir.
What an awesome video. Many thanks 👌
You are welcome
Thanks for awesome video😊
Unglaublich, dass all diese Komponenten ohne Probleme zusammenarbeiten und das Tag und Nacht für viele Jahrzehnte ‼️😲
Sehr beeindruckend ❕👍🏼
Danke für's Zeigen 🙏🏼😊
Lieben Gruß aus Berlin 🇩🇪,
Ramsi 🙋🏻♂️
Wow, I knew the A350 must have a lot of electrical components etc, but this is insane! Makes you wonder how they make sure everything is correctly connected .
There's a lot of checks and testing before the aircraft leaves the factory. And if components are replaced also testing needs to be done.
Thank you, never thougt it would be this big and so many devices
great video - I am used to working in Data Centres and Network comms rooms so I was surprised to see the avionics bay is relatively dirty.
Yes area isn’t clean, the air used for the cooling of the equipment is filtered. But still plenty of dust collects through the opening from above. It’s not an airtight box.
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 how often do they do an really big cleanup in the avionics bay?
Ha! Yes, as a retired DC Facilities manager, i found that no matter how much you try to keep the dust out, the silly stuff still finds its way in 😀.
I thought, this is all included in the Cockpit, there are already millions of Buttons. But no, more tech in the Plane than in an average corporates server room. Wow. Thx for showing.
mon admirations aux ingénieurs qui ont conçus et réalisé cette merveille
Holy crap Batman! What a crazy amount of hard/software. And that none of this is assessable during flight is a testament to the reliability of aircraft systems these days.
The Cessna 150 I learned to fly in didn't even have a USB socket! I think there WAS a 'Cigar Lighter Outlet' though! Important eh?! Incredible video and detailed information; I'm not sure if all this electrical technology makes me feel safer or more worried!
I can assure you these aircraft are very safe, no need to worry about that.
And here we see Geordi again crawling in.. Jefferies tubes of Enterprise ! 😉😁🥰
I love these keep uploading!
Thanks! I am glad you like it.
A work of art.
Thanks for your sharing
Amazing. No wonder why these Aircrafts cost Millions and Millions of dollars. 😯
Not billions and billions of dollars for each one! Even John Travolta doesn't have billions AND billions!
@malacca1951 My mistake😬. I meant to say Millions and millions.
@@RahulRk-tr7otNot too far off with billions and billions. :P List price for an A350-1000 is around $360 million USD. But yeah, these things are expensive for a reason. They’re expected to work pretty much continuously with little downtime for decades.
@@ZaphodHarkonnen Hm... I am From India. so I am not very used to these Millions and billions. We use Lakhs and crores,I searched google about 350 million Usd dollars to Indian currency and it says around 3000 crore indian rupees. Which is Literally breath taking, For reference a Lamborghini Urus Top model in india cost around 4 Crore Indian rupees.👀
Thank you - really impressive
This is just incredible. Just wanted to ask if the crew have access to the compartment during flight. Is there even any need to access it during flight?
Unbelievably complicated, I’m glad you understand all of it. No wonder these aircraft cost so much, one wonders what happened before these high tech computers. I wonder does all this equipment get over the air updates the same as my home computer.
In the old days, many, many more aircraft used to crash.
Software can be automatically uploaded iinto a server in the aircraft, still someone is required to load them into the computer.
Are the batteries for keeping power on standby, and for bringing the systems online until the APU is started? At which point they are replenished?
Something i’ve also been curious about: Do the actuators that physically move the control surfaces pull large amounts of current during pilot input, or is reduction used? They’d have to be able to respond quite quickly, though still, and reduction would seemingly slow the response of the control surfaces? Very informative video!
Very cool.
So you saying the computers are not behind the dashboard?? i always thought the md11 was the last one like that. i presumed all the electronics are a big box with a LCD screen, like the FMS, that you can pull out and contains the functions in one unit...
Very interesting, always wondering what all those computers on an Airbus looked like. I think it would help your video a lot if the commentary was recorded separately as a voice over (afterwards) as the loud background noise from the fans is a bit over powering ! If possible I think it would also be great to see some Airbus schematics of the equipment bay for the areas that you are looking at as you move along.
Great suggestion! But often people leave comments not to use music etc to leave to original noises in the video. I should have raised the volume if my voice a bit.
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Yep, as something of a 'musician' myself, I do hate background music on videos/tutorials as I find it a total distraction/irritation.
Very interesting! Still NiCd battery technology in use even on the newest airplanes?
Yes NiCd still used, Lithium batteries are an option on the A350
Thank you Dennis. A bit over my head but interesting nonetheless. :)
Thanks
Salve, io ho lavorato ai sistemi di terra per il controllo del traffico aereo, (Radar, Radioassistenze, ecc.) ma a bordo dell'aereo vedo che c'è qualcosa di veramente complesso. Bellissimo ed interessante video. Grazie.
A Boeing is an aircraft, but an Airbus is basically a computer with wings.
Absolutely impressive. I knew there are a lot of avionics on an airplane, just think of all the entertainment in each chair, but that much is almost ridiculous. I understand the amount of computer program lines is equally impressive. Far gone are the days of a cable to the flaps etc.
I like that the batteries are labeled with (I guess it’s the manufacturer name) „SAFT“.
In German, „Saft“ (literally juice) is commonly and colloquially used to refer to electrical power, e.g. when a battery is empty, you could say (very informally) they are out of juice, they have „…keinen Saft mehr.“
@@cnvogel well it is a funny coincidence 😁
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 It was founded as Société des Accumulateurs Fixes et de Traction. So French, not a German name.
I like to believe that Safran is Societe Anonyme FRancease AeroNautique but I may be wrong. But then, it is French.
😳😳 Amazing views..Thank you.
Wow impressive
This is amazing. Ty for showing. Could you show the mid and aft bay?
There is a small bay in, accessible via the bulk cargo hold, will make a video if I get there.
I never want to set foot on an airplane again. I live in the US and just cannot accept the fact that we can get enough people together with the mental fortitude to maintain something at this level of complexity never mind engineer and build it well enough to get off the ground.
I just flew on my first A-350 last month: Lufthansa Munich-Newark.
I find it interesting that all of the high voltage transformers and distribution boards are right next to the sensitive computers.
All components are shielded so it should not interfere with each other.
This is a big plane, but would a small plane like an A320 or 737 really need much less equipment?
Depending on what the airline has is specced for it might be missing some components like certain radios. But overall it will contain a similar amount of stuff. Just crammed into much smaller avionics bays.
A lot of French subcontractors here (Thales, Zodiac, SAFT, Safran)... nice that they primary source from EU manufacturers
Wonder what the wright brothers would think 😮
It just is mindblowing people can design, manufacture and maintain such planes and reach such high safety standards ......
It's also very scary when you realize all this has to work perfectly together, each bolt, each wire, each clamp, each hose, each fitting ... each everything to get to this standard....
They do and make it possible we can get anywhere on our 🌎
But it doesn't have to work perfectly together. Most of the equipment there was double or triple redundant incase something stopped working.
It's a little surprising to see how much equipment is squeezed into the area. It's also interesting that the flaps/slats have their own computer separate from the flight computer that controls the flight surfaces.
I think it is more a case of the flight control computer says 'move the flaps by to position 2' and the flap computer actually checks the current position, moves them to the new position and then checks they are in the correct position. Also if there is a failure there must be many different failure modes.
@extrude22 sure but you'd think the main flight computer which handles the other control surfaces has similar treatments to detecting position and handling failures.
@ I think the idea is to split different fictions to different machines for redundancy.
You’d hate to look at the avionics bay of a narrowbody then. This thing is a roomy mansion in comparison. ;)
Is that bay pressurised?
It has to be as it’s in the pressure vessel. Same thing with the cargo bay which is always pressurised. It won’t get much in the way of heating from the aircon system but it is always at the same pressure as the main cabin. Same goes for basically all passenger planes.
At 7:34, the red light indicating “Fault” on the Satellite Data Unit was flashing. Is that something to worry about?
Red light is flashing as satcom isn’t able to logon, the aircraft ADIRU’s need to be aligned so satcom knows its position. Than it will logon automatically.
Seems that there are so many common parts with Boeing in Airbus avionics here!
You're rifght !
There’s likely to be subtle differences in the interfaces. But yeah, once you’ve solved the problem and built the component that can handle whatever the functions are. There’s really no need to completely recreate it. Also useful for certain critical functions that you don’t want to handle certification for by rolling your own implementation. Easier to just buy the already battle tested part from an OEM and plug it into your stuff.
Especially DME, VOR, ADF etc are more or less all the same
This video gets especially mindbreaking if you consider that all of this gear travels upwards of 10 km in height at over 900 km/h
What does the white tape? around some of the breakers imply?
Those are circuit breaker safety locks
Indeed white collars are used to lock out the CB, it’s done when a system is not installed. Or permanent deactivated.
Thanks Dennis
You are welcome
That's a lot of equipment. Almost not enough room for the passengers!
I have one suggestion. Do the video without the sound and do a voice over. Its hard to hear you over the noise. Very nice video and interesting to a 40 year service tech. Having worked on different equipment over the years.
I agree, it is noisy in the bay. However, the ambient sounds are part of the experience.
Interesting. Can you get from the cockpit into the avionics bay?
th-cam.com/video/A_k_PBSoUmE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pD5dxpi7SE7yNn7g check out how that looks in this video
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Thanks. Does a pilot ever go there? Are there instructions for the pilot in the check lists/manuaals to go there for for example pulling or checking a CB?
@@aamiddel8646 No, there would be no reason for a pilot to go there during flight. Most CB’s that would come out are monitored and would generate a warning, resets of CB are a no no in flight anyway.
is there a million euro worth of computers in the avionics bay
Looks far better organised than the B777 avionics bay
At 4:00 , that black closet, looks as it's made of wood 😂
But I guess that isn't the case ?
Thank you!
You're welcome!
i am interested how the entertainment system or server work. have they been in the tour? havent noticed…
From memory those will generally be installed on the main deck as it’s different for each airline and isn’t critical to aircraft operation like the items in the avionics bay.
IFE servers are in a cabinet in an area after of the bulk cargo hold.
Where is the equipment for the IFE system kept?
After of the bulk cargo hold there is an are with waste and water tanks, in there there is a closet with the IFE servers
@ Interesting, thanks
Wow, what a headache to keep track of all that, and which acronym is what, and which box does what!!
Luckily it all in the aircraft manuals.
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Yeah, except... last time I read the A320 Documentation, that's a heck of a lot of manuals to go through to get minimally acquainted with all the aircraft's navigation systems and computers... and I'm no longer in my 20s to get excited about doing that!
Airbus why do you have to rename everything…. It took me 20 years to know the avionics of the A340/330 now I am searching again CB’s 😂
It's a lot to keep up with, but the functions and purpose of most components remain largely the same.
Also CB’s only have the FIN and location number on the A350, no names anymore.
I felt the same, I was somewhat familiar with the A320 stuff, but here I felt completely lost!!
Are there any contingencies where a pilot would have to go into that bay during a flight (e.g. to flip a circuit breaker)?
Nou, ik hoop dat ik dit in Januari nog allemaal kan herinderen ;)
Je kan het gelukkig op een loop zetten, so zie je het over en over again. Up to a million views 🤪
Happy days!
Boeing says who needs redundancy?🤣
as always . dust everywhere on the units
I saw some leaks and dirt on the floor. Can you comment this? For me it seems no good to see leaks in this bay.
13:30 Looks a bit dirty
Yes it is not a clean place
Like in the wheel well it looks clean and well designed compared to Boeing
Give the aircraft another couple decades of service and it’ll be nice and dirty. The oldest A350-1000 is still pretty young.
What i would really love to know and maybe you know about that: as s Software engineer, im used to programs running on a computer, written by code.
You u have executable code, fire up the pc, execute the code.
Now with these computers, and lets take maybe some simple systems, would that be the way they work or not at all?
So is there some computer build in this airscraft, that has some code running that, on the deepest level, calculates something? Maybe distsnces, hights whatever?
Don’t have the knowledge of that, need to check on that, no information given about the codes in the maintenance manuals. But some kind of operation system is most likely uploaded into these boxes before application are loaded into it.
Yup, on aircraft like the A350 all the various sensors will feed into computers that make up the avionics. So all the calculations needed to figure out things like altitude, airspeed, direction, engine performance, waypoints, generating the video that goes to the electronic flight displays, etc.
As noted by Dennis one of the benefits of the latest style of FBW systems and avionics is that you can cram a lot of functionality that used to be in many different boxes into just a handful.
The code that runs on these systems will all be tested to various different levels for correct outputs when given weird inputs but also graceful performance degradation when things go wrong. Incidents still happen but they’re learnt from and updates put out or otherwise rolled into future designs.
I don’t think I really want to knot how many thing there are that can fail.
I’m better of not knowing.
If it makes you feel better there are so many layers of redundancy and graceful degradation that make it pretty hard for enough to fail while flying to be an issue. Remember it’s in the airline’s interest for their planes to keep working and not become lawn darts. :P
Do we REALLY need all this stuff for something as relatively basic as flying an aircraft?
For flying itself not, some aluminum tubing and some covering and you can make something that can fly. Not sure you would be able to fly 300 passengers 10,000 miles safely. This can
It's a mini data center,
Do the ethernet cables terminate with more solid RJ45 plugs such as the shielded type for Cat 7?
I believe it is something more secure than an RJ45
@@extrude22Yup. Ethernet implementations aren’t tied to RJ45 jacks. They’ll use some sort of lockable connector that can be screwed down or otherwise secured. Same with all the other wire and cable connectors.
Search for "M12 Ethernet" and you'll find good examples of round connectors that are used for this purpose.
Compare this to a Lockheed Constellation for example. LOL
Hi, anyone knows the difference between CPIOM-H and CPIOM-J ?
The main difference is the hardware the processors of the -H and -J are different.
sieht alles ziemlich altmodisch aus....
The technology developed in this aircraft is at least 15 years old. You would not find the most current technology. But aircraft will receive modifications in their lifetime, and newer models well get some upgrades technologies.
Watching this makes me more uncomfortable to fly with such a plane…
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looks more like a brain than heart
Is it really SAFE to show all this to the WORLD ... many bad people out there ...
🤔 each pilot need a "personal license" for legal aeroplane use ...but the pedale are connected ...the stick is with a "controll button" , why ?
- alot to ask before first simulator lesson
Too much stuff. Tesla needs to get into reducing the complexity and weight of aircraft
It a Tesla would need dual or triple redundancy it probably was stuffed a little more too. Also it isn’t a flying car 😉
If a Tesla would need dual or triple redundancy it probably was stuffed a little more too. Also it isn’t a flying car 😉
@@dennisvijverbergbrakesrele6098 Teslas have dual redundancy in their autopilot functions.
I Had the same thought. This looks to me like weight and space had no priority, more like a prototype using components from 50 different companys and the need for extra components to let them work together by adapting protokolls and voltages. At Tesla/SpaceX most would have been developed by themself and you would see this clearly
@@leeoldershaw956 ohhh didn’t know that
this video was 100% never approved by airbus to be released in this way - good luck with your job
As this video doesn’t share any technology or technical manuals, and only give a tour with an explanation of what’s in the avionics bay I don’t think it violates anything.
With a little of research you can find all of this already on the internet.
These things are not as confidential as you might think.
Airbus doesn’t care about this sort of video. If you could learn anything dangerous via this video that you could make use of as a normal passenger then well done.
all from +-1980