| Avionics is an exciting field. When you
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| | avionics can be broken down into
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| have watched movies where they show the
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| | different fields, each with a specialized
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| cockpit, you must have noticed the large
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| | purpose of its own.
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| number of controls and displays. That is
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| | Avionics started with communication.
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| what Avionics is all about.
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| | There are many more aspects to avionics,
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| Avionics is a contraction of the two
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| | but it is still highly focused on
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| words Aviation and Electronics. Formerly
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| | communication. This also involves onboard
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| Avionics was all about military
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| | communication means, like public address
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| application; in the 40's most of the
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| | systems and intercoms. Navigation is
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| operating systems which were involved in
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| | crucial for determining the precise
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| aircrafts were either mechanical,
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| | position and direction of the aircraft
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| electric, radio-frequency based, or
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| | above the Earth's surface, such as the
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| magnetic in nature, and the subsequent
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| | Global Positioning System.
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| invention of radar in detecting enemy
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| | Certainly anyone would expect the display
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| planes during World War II ushered in the
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| | in aircrafts to be highly robust. These
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| development of a whole new category of
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| | provide user-friendly systems of
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| electronic navigational devices.
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| | determining aircraft altitude and
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| As the vacuum tubes gave way to
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| | heading, both for the pilot and the
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| integrated circuits, the field of
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| | aircrew.
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| avionics truly took birth in the 70s.
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| | Aircraft flight control systems are used
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| Foreseeing the vast potential for this
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| | to take off the burden from the pilot at
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| relatively new field of technology,
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| | crucial situations, such as during the
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| industry specialists took the
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| | landing maneuver or while hovering; these
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| applications from the military into the
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| | tasks are usually done by the system in
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| area of civilian aircraft development.
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| | order to minimize the chances of pilot
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| Avionics is currently becoming an
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| | error. Avoiding collisions is possible
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| increasingly versatile field, with its
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| | with Avionic systems designed
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| applications bleeding out from the
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| | specifically for that purpose.
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| aerospace industry, and into commercial
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| | Weather systems are used to gauge weather
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| shipping, and naval and terrestrial
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| | patterns on the aircrafts flight path,
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| vehicle navigation, where the need to
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| | and allows the pilot to consider evasive
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| quickly process data in real-time is ever
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| | options in case the results are
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| more urgent. Be it money spent on
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| | unfavorable; currently, satellite systems
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| research in the field of aircrafts, or
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| | have been of great assistance to
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| money spent to buy aircraft, most of it
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| | navigation, as the aircraft can assess
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| goes into avionics and this field has
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| | weather conditions which are too far away
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| evolved from being an auxiliary part of
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| | to be detected by in-flight systems.
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| an aircraft, to the essential reason for
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| | The different systems that talk to each
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| its existence.
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| | other are cumulatively called the
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| The field of Avionics is now of paramount
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| | Aircraft management system. Its tasks
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| importance in aircraft engineering. This
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| | include monitoring the status of the
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| is because Avionics is the brain of the
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| | engines, to measuring minute changes in
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| aircraft. This system is primarily
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| | pressure. I would like to think of the
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| located in the cockpit of the aircraft,
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| | avionic aircraft management system as the
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| and operates autonomously under the
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| | heart and the brain of an aircraft.
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| supervision of the pilot. Aircraft
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