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13.1
ESP
aam1in
arc
700
is equipped with an envelope protection feature referred as ESP (Electron-
ic
Stability & Protection). Electronic Stability and Protection continuously monitors the air-
crall.
The
system works by applying a correcting lorce to the controls
in
order
to nudge pilot
to avoid extreme attitudes that may bring the aircrall,
if
not corrected, to exceed normal lly-
ing envelope.
This sollware feature aims to provide protection against aircrali operation outside a desired
flight envelope. ESP will maintain the desired operating envelope, delincd at autopilot de-
velopment time. by automatically engaging
one
or
more scvos when the aircraft
is
near the
operating limit and nudging pilot to
come
back to nominal operating envelope. While ESP
uulizes the
same
sensors, processors, and actuators as the
arc
700 autopilot,
it
is basically a
,eparate
function. ESI' can be overpowered by the pilot and can
be
temporarily disabled us-
ing the
AP
disconnect
or
CWS
switches. It functions independently
of
the
aircran·s
autopi-
lot syslem (although
it
uses thc
same
control servos),
so
it
basically operates ·'in back-
ground" whenever the pilot
is
hand-llying the airplane.
The
ESP
feature
will
only
runction
with
GPS
available,
A/P
MASTER
SWITCH
ON
(but
autopilot
not
engaged)
and
aircrart
above
200rt
AGL.
ESP
enabling:
As a standard, ESP will automatically set to enable at power-up.
The
system is conligured
in
order
to allow the pilot to disable ESP
(or
re-enable
it
if
previ-
ously disabled
alicr
power
up) via the
AUX-
SYSTEM
SI:
ITINaS
page on
MrD.
lr
ESP has been disabled via MFD, it will automatically
be
set to
ON
upon any bat-
tery/power re,ct.
ESP function uses the same servos that provide autopilot functionality while autopilot is not en-
gaged, as such,
if
power
is
cut from these servos both autopilot and ESP functions will
be
una-
vailable.
Based on the above
if"AUTOPILOT
MASTER
'"
is
set to
orr,
power to servos
is
cut irre-
spectively
or
their
mode
of
operation (autopilot
or
ESP).
The
pilot can inh.:rrupt ESP by pressing and holding either the Control Wheel Steering
(CWS)
or
Autopilot Disconnect
(Al'
DISC
TRIM
INTRPT) switch. Upon releasing the
CWS
or
AP DISC TRIM INTRPT switch, ESP force will again be applied, provided aircrall
attitude
and/or
airspeed
arc
within their respective engagement limits.
ESI' can he enabled
or
disabled on the
AUX-SYSTEM
SETUI'
2 Page
on
the
MrD.
Section
1 -
General
AUTOPILOT
FUNCTIONS
Ed.
2,
Rev.O
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