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Old 4th May 2007 | 08:53
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jorel
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Thanks Max reverse,

Interesting that you get four sim sessions in a year what is a ref session ?

My question about the batteries comes from an interest on A320's that have a single power source for the standby horizon that comes off the DC Essential Bus

I believe there has been an incident where it was not possible to power the DC essential bus, G-EZAC but that PFD 2 was available for attitude information

Thinking worst case scenario and linking it in to the BA incident where G-EUOB
lost all 5 screens but were eventually available to select AC Ess Feed and re power DC ESS bus. Airbus have designed a scenario where flight on batteries gives you potentially 30 minutes attitude information and that would be it.

Thinking along those lines, I have a few questions

1.In the case of G-EZAC where flight continued without DC ESS bus and the Aircraft was of the design of a single power supply to the Stanby horizon (which I believe has changed with the introduction of an ISIS display). Would the horizon of toppled by the time they had landed?

2.What is the logic for the selection of Batteries in Flight configuration?

3.If it was'nt possible to power both AC and DC ESS bus but AC2 was available, would there be a consideration for manually selecting EMER Elec?

Thanks
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