First I like to apologize for being ignorant about many of the facts and like to thank for pointing it out.
Well.. today my day went on as usual with classes in the morning first half and labs in the latter half followed by our second session in the afternoon.
The class started by around 3 and for our surprise, we never expected our teachers to actually attend the session and sit with us! The class started with the basic exchange of information on our blogs that is when the second surprise hit us because we never expected our blogs to be read that thoroughly and the mistakes to be pointed out so well!
After informing everyone about the errors, the class moved on to the day's theme "almost right is 100% wrong".
We were shown the importance of quality control and reliability and its importance in avionics industry and how it plays a major part in aerospace. After which the basics of embedded systems were discussed and a video was shown in which we were asked to identify different embedded systems that came up it. I was able to identify 4 systems although Omer's vision was far better than mine as he was able to identify 7. We then moved on to the different missiles that are used both on a plane and off the plane and although I knew about the heat seeker missiles, the working of LASER guided systems were relatively new to me and it was intriguing. I got to know how the counter measures worked for its avoidance.
We then discussed about the basics of internet and about its origin and the cause of its existence and the we moved on to the types of systems and then came up to the embedded systems again and discussed the different levels involved in creating and deployment of the embedded systems using ppt presentation.
After this we talked about the real time systems and the different types in real time systems namely hard Real time and Soft Real time, although I did not understand the difference that clearly.
After that we discussed about the rts applications in defence namely for cruise missiles, the different systems that are present in the cruise missiles and also how it is able to hit the target with such great accuracy. I am actually curious as to how the IGS(Inertial guidance system) works as it said that it roughly tells the position of the missile by measuring its acceleration!
After this a handbook was handed over to us which showed the different modules that we would be exploring in the due course of time and also the dress code was told to us, but i didnt get why is it put up only for the guys of the class, cause in an industry if a gal is working, then even she would be coming under its norms and thus its dress code as well!. Anyways.......
We then watched few more videos of different aircrafts landings prior to which we were shown a slide and was told to guess what the flight was doing, although my bets was on TOGA, it turned out to be a landing sequence! he then explained about the different types of winds that exists during landing and videos were shown on how the cross winds are compensated by changing the angle of descent. Well the video was rightly named ie scary landings my friend beside me was certainly getting second thoughts about travelling in the plane next time.. lol.
We later saw the complications that the US Airways 1549 faced due to which it had to land in the Hudson river, and I have to say that it definitely was a brilliant landing as even if there was some angle variations, it would have led to loss of lot of lives. We then saw 2 videos on the mid air collisions, the one without TCAS system and another with TCAS system. I was actually more curious with the collision that took place with the TCAS system as what my thoughts is that, if two planes, carrying TCAS systems does not communicate with each other, and if both the systems order the pilot to descend (or ascend), it would also result in a collision!. I still need to do some googling on this, and I am pretty sure that I will be able to find it out, if not I'll raise this in the next session.
We were also shown the different flight instruments used to show the orientation and behavior of the plane and also we are yet to discuss on cloud bursting in the next session, so looking forward to it.
TILL NEXT TIME
GOOD NIGHT :)
