AVIONICS BAY GOUGE
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Emergency canopy open bottle - (orange bottle in the
top, back part of the compartment) - filled with nitrogen
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check for slack in emergency canopy open cable and that cable is attached
to the actuating rod
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any maintenance pins connected to the actuating rod clevis should have
a “remove before flight” flag attached - ensure this is removed prior to
flight
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Junction box - mounted on forward side of compartment. Note the air conditioning
service and sight glass guage behind box
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RMI adapter - black box bottom row left side
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Slaving accessory - bottom row, 2nd box - receives inputs from the
flux detector (left wingtip) and the directional gyro (round black unit
behind the RMI adapter ) and sends an accurate, gyro-stabilized magnetic
heading signal to both RMI compass cards
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Flux detector- 28 VDC electromagnetic compass - sends magnetic heading
signal to slaving accessory.
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Directional gyro - 115 VAC, provides stabilization of magnetic heading
signal
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DME-40 - bottom row, 3rd box - provides TACAN distance to station to both
NACWS CDU’s
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BRG-40 - bottom row, 4th box - provides bearing information to the TACAN
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ARC-159 - top row, left - UHF transceiver
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VIR-30 - top row, right - receives and interprets VOR and localizer signals
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NACWS TRC - mounted to overhead. NACWS transmitter/receiver computer,
provides all the information displayed on both cockpit display units (CDUs)
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Avionics cooling fan - lower forward portion of compartment
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GPS equiped planes will have the GPS unit mounted to the ceiling of th
compartment
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