Ever Wonder What an ADG sounds like Deployed

heard an XJ flight a couple weeks ago testing this one out.

atc wasn't happy that they were messing around in the bravo at such a slow speed, but you could hear the buzzing in the background when they were talking.
 
Matt13C said:
What is an ADG?
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Air Driven Generator.

Here's what they look like: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Connection-(ASA/Canadair-CL-600-2C10-Regional/0606713/L/

It's the thing that's popped out in the nose.

Any pilots that fly a plane please correct me if I'm wrong but: Basically, when an aircraft has an electrical failure of a certain nature a little prop attached to a generator pops out into the slipstream. The prop windmills, turning a generator which creates (limited) electrical power for the aircraft.
 
N519AT said:
Air Driven Generator.

Here's what they look like: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Connection-(ASA/Canadair-CL-600-2C10-Regional/0606713/L/

It's the thing that's popped out in the nose.

Any pilots that fly a plane please correct me if I'm wrong but: Basically, when an aircraft has an electrical failure of a certain nature a little prop attached to a generator pops out into the slipstream. The prop windmills, turning a generator which creates (limited) electrical power for the aircraft.
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Thanks!

Thats a good idea.
 
Matt13C said:
What is an ADG?
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Air driven generator also called a hydraulic driven gen and a ram air turbine. It drops out of the fuselage and uses the wind to turn the prop to power components.

http://tinyurl.com/ydh7am4

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Orange Anchor said:
Air driven generator also called a hydraulic driven gen and a ram air turbine. It drops out of the fuselage and uses the wind to turn the prop to power components.

http://tinyurl.com/ydh7am4
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Nice.

When going through a type rating, you have to learn the plane inside and out correct? Do they provide you with all the reading material, like the Hydraulic System information you posted, prior to class?
 
Matt13C said:
Nice.

When going through a type rating, you have to learn the plane inside and out correct? Do they provide you with all the reading material, like the Hydraulic System information you posted, prior to class?
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More and more classes are deleting 'laundry lists' like what six things happen when you push this switch?

A routine manual will have Normal Procedures, Abnormal (or the one I have to laugh at NON-Normal) as well as Emergency Procedures. Then you have systems descriptions which tells you what the system does and how.

It used to be that you needed to know that a system was electrically actuated, hydraulic operated and if it was AC or DC. Checklists have advanced as systems have become more reliable. I think the last engine I shut down for problems was in the early 90s.

My method of study was to understand the system so I could teach it. I would usually have sys diagrams with notes on the diagrams in the room and just study them with the narrative. Once you break the code of the logic in the system, the rest comes fairly easy.
 
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