AUTOPILOT
AIRPLANE
OPERATIONS
MANUAL
2-19-05
Page
4
Code
01
REVISION 23
FLIGHT GUIDANCE SYSTEM
The Flight Guidance System may perform three separate functions:
the Flight Director, Autopilot and Autopilot Monitoring.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR
The Flight Director function provides pitch and roll attitude commands
based on data from a variety of sensors, including attitude, heading, air
data, radio altimeter, navigation and pilot inputs. These attitude
commands are sent to the PFD for pilot display, to the autopilot for
automatic airplane control and to the autopilot monitors.
AUTOPILOT
The autopilot provides yaw stabilization and follows pitch and roll
attitude commands from the flight director.
The autopilot/yaw damper monitors continuously check autopilot
functions and operation. In case of failure, they are capable of
disengaging the autopilot and yaw damper, independent of the
autopilot processor hardware.
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