Originally Posted by
roulishollandais
The ATEC Series 6 testbench is a very bad choice who does the pilots blind.
I don't quite get your point....
An ATEC is a huge computer-controlled automatic test bench, used for initial reception of the equipment, and for testing and fault-finding of equipment "thrown off the aircraft as suspect".
I think most pilots have never even seen one......
ATLAS is a specialised programming language for (mostly) avionics and similar aircraft equipment.
Describing ATLAS here in detail is really a bit too much O/T, but any old computer freaks will find some vague similarities with BASIC.
It really is a neat way of writing a full test specification for a piece of equipment in a format that can be understood directly by humans (and even performed on a manual test bench), as well as by fully automatic test equipment (such as the ATEC, but also ATEs from other manufacturers).
The pilot must be able to understand very quickly what goes wrong in the flight to take the good decision.
I agree, but that's not the same context....
The FCSC CMM with 2000 pages is a BABEL ATLAS.
What do you mean with that?
I believe the 2000 pages (ours were a bit smaller), but not all of that would be the ATLAS spec.... (unless the ATLAS progs for the individual boards were also included in the CMM, which I doubt), some would be intercon, wiring lists, circuit layouts, diagrams, IPCs, etc.
Anyway, all this is not too relevant, but a nice 'blast from the past'.