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autothrottle
- Definição1
- An electronic or electro-mechanical device which enables a pilot to control the thrust/power setting of the aircraft engines by selection of a specific flight profile, or parameter, rather than by controlling fuel flow via manual manipulation of the thrust/power levers.
- Fonte1
- Skybrary, Autothrottle / Autothrust. Disponível em:
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Aircraft accident digest n.31. Montreal, 1988. (Cir. 202 AN/123).
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual on aeroplane upset prevention and recovery training. Montreal, 2014. (Doc. 10011 AN/506).
- Contexto
- Training: highlight how a loss of situation awareness can allow a flight path degradation leading to LOC‑I (e.g. disengagement of autothrottles; misusing pitch, roll or yaw trim; engine loss; airspeed loss from international standard atmosphere deviation when operating at too high an altitude; forgetting to re-engage autothrottle after making an entry in an engine monitoring log).
- The Autothrottle and the Autopilot normally perform their specific assignments very well but neither system knows much of what the other is doing or plans to do and neither system knows much about operational limitations (with some exceptions e.g., on DC-10).
- Autoflight systems. The autopilot, autothrottle (or autothrust), and all related systems that perform automatic flight management and guidance.
- Subárea
- Piloting
- Related Term
- throttle
- throttle body
- Spanish
- mando automático de gases