Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
Is it me being old fashioned, but the airbus schematics seem to flatter to deceive - there is so much less information in them than first meets the eye.
Schematics come in "layers".
Most of the ones that you have seen here are the outer "explanatory" layer.
Each little rectangle has its own internal schematic (block diagram), and each of those has another few layers, before you actually get down to circuit diagrams (in analogue systems) or logic diagrams and software code (in digital systems).
Unless you're a design or maintenance engineer, those last few layers would contain no information that you could make any sense of....
So... no,
Mr Optimistic, you're not old-fashioned, but schematics need a lot of background knowledge to interpret correctly. (Been there, done that, haven't got the T-shirt, but drawn a lot of diagrams, from basic circuit diagrams to block diagrams. Mostly for my own use and for the colleagues that were working on the same system.)