Description / Abstract:
This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) outlines
comprehensive aircraft flight control system fault isolation
methodology that has proven to be effective. The methodology
presented in this Information Report has been used in several
successful fault isolation efforts on military aircraft.
Purpose:
The purpose of this Information Report is to provide trouble
shooting methodology to use for chronic problems that procedures
contained in troubleshooting manuals or fault trees fail to fix.
This shortcoming may have been due to multiple causal factors or
design issues that were not realized by component or airframe
manufacturers when the troubleshooting manuals were written.
Field of Application:
This report is written with military aircraft flight control
system fault isolation in mind but the principles presented are
equally applicable to other aircraft systems.