Airbus switches - momentary or toggle?

[ryanf]

Hi All,

I am in the process of assembling some of my Airbus panels and I just wanted to confirm a couple of things:

1. Are the auto-brake selection switches momentary or toggle?

2. Do the landing gear annunciator lights have any function as switches - or just annunciators?

3. Are the engine warn/fail indicators on the engine start panel just annunciators or are they switches also? If switches, are they toggle or momentary?

Many thanks,
Ryan.

[jeehell]

Hello,

From what I could gather:

1 - Auto-brakes are momentary switches
2 & 3 - LDG gear/Engine Fail annunciators are only annunciators

You may want to cross check however, if dodiano is in the vicinity maybe

[Swiss1673]

Hi

With the Software of Airsimtech (AST), the Autobreak Switch and offset is toogle! Diffrent then Boeing....

The rest are only annunciators.

Daniel

[ryanf]

Thanks guys!

[HansJansen]

Ryan,

Also make sure to look at Jerome Meriweather's site. He describes all Airbus (and other...) panels in detail, including whether you want switches or only annunciators.

See http://www.meriweather.com/320/fd-320.html

Regards,

[ryanf]

Great idea Hans!

[OmniAtlas]

Autobrake, MW, MC, Autoland, EGPWS/GS seem to be mon-off.

How about the Terr on HD? These can annunciate to the 'on' position even when off (you're flying into a mountain) and they would make sense to be mon-off PB.

[jeehell]

Yes the TERR ON ND are also MON-OFF.
Here a list I made, it may not be exhaustive:
-EXT PWR
-APU START
-Autobrakes
-yellow elec pump
-ADRs
-Fire Agents
-IDGs
-GND CTL
-MW/MC
-GPWS G/S
-AUTOLAND
-TERR ON ND

Regards
JL

[OmniAtlas]

Cheers, thanks for the list JL

[Fritz]

Hi Jean Luc,

could you please enable in FDS Interface IT Creator the possibility to assign those switches to "separate Press/Release action". E.g. it's possible for the yellow elec pump but not for TERR ON ND.

THX