Dear friends and followers welcome back to my channel and lovely greetings from the flight
simulation here at the TFC flight school and training center in Essen Germany
Over the course of the next 10 weeks
I'll be uploading 10 videos from this simulator presenting you basic system knowledge of the Airbus
A320 family and we'll be going through these
10 topics the aircraft in general, the Auxiliary Power Unit, the fuel system, the hydraulics, pneumatic
the electrical system, air conditioning
flight controls, the auto flight system, and the fire protection system, so let's get started
Okay today. We will cover some general information about the Airbus A320 family
First to know the family members are the A318, A319, A320 and the A321
The A320
Is manufactured by Airbus industrie which is a consortium of four European aerospace
companies based in Germany, England, Spain and France
The fuselage section the tail flaps and spoilers are built in Hamburg, Germany.
England is responsible for the main wing section. Spain builds the horizontal stabilizers and elevators
nose landing gear doors and forward cabin doors and
France constructs the cockpit the forward fuselage and the engine pylons.
and the airplane can be equipped with either engines from the CFM international or
International Aero engines all the components are then shipped through a central facility
in Toulouse, France where the final assembly takes place of the
A320. Hamburg also assembles there the A318, 19, and 21.
So do newer assembly lines in China and in the US and to get all the components from a to b
Airbus especially modified a cargo aircraft entirely for this purpose
And I'm sure many of you have seen it before the Airbus Beluga
which used to be a former
A300 ,600 and was converted into a super
Transporter it is large enough to carry part of the fuselage section or a
Complete set of wings. now the A320 program was launched in March
1984 first Flew on the 22nd of February
1987 and was first delivered in March
1988 and the First airlines to fly the A320 were Air France and Lufthansa
The other models of the family followed much later and Airbus pioneered the use of digital fly-By-wire
Control system as well as into using side-stick controls in commercial aviation and as of January
2017 a total of 7442 Airbus A320 Family Aircraft have been delivered and
American Airlines is the largest operator of the Airbus A320 family at the moment
operating with
380 Aircraft now the A320 was the first mode to be developed in the narrow-body
family and later models such as the A318, 19, and 21 were developed by
Lengthening or shortening the fuselage to adapt the basic model to a newer format
With exception of the fuselage length all the dimensions remain basically the same for the entire family, okay?
let's cover some facts about the plane itself the A320 family has a range of
1700 Nautical Miles to
6,500 miles depending on the model and how its equipped the cockpit is designed for two-man Crew
Operation has jump seats for up to two of servers
there are six windows installed giving you a
viewing angle of with over a hundred and eighty degrees and
Two of them are sliding windows one installed on each side of the cockpit which can easily be opened manually
Airbus also introduced the all lights extinguished cockpit interface
meaning that if the push-button is not lit up it's in the on or auto
Position and will light up in case there is a fault or the switch needs to be put in another configuration
Making it easier to find the switches in case of an emergency
below the main Cabin floor are two large cargo compartments
accessible through two cargo doors which can either be open with the use of the hydraulic system or a
manual hand pump and
on the A321 there is a smaller bulk baggage compartment fitted at the rear part of the
Fuselage which can only be opened manually the cargo floor can be fitted with an automatic loading system
primarily for the use of Jet containers or without the system and therefore Cargo has to be manually loaded and
secured with nets
the A320 Family was developed to compete with the boeing 737 and
McDonnell, Douglas MD80
90 series as of 2010 the A320 family faces even more competition from the Embryos
195 to Match the competitors ever have therefore introduced the New Airbus
A320neo Which uses
16% less fuel than the original model which again makes it very interesting for airline operators
And she for sure is one of my favorite planes to fly with but that's it for now
Make sure to tune in next week as we're going to discuss another Airbus system
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Your Captain Joe