The A320 Podcast

Happy New Year! Well we've had a couple of weeks break, now we're straight back to it and this week is a good one. Fuel. Theres more to this system than you would imagine actually.  Here is a summary ...

9 Jan 201720min

As its nearly Christmas we thought we do a more light-hearted episode. This week we discuss the film Sully. Scenario of the week - Departing your home base, you lose both engines at 2800ft. What will ...

19 Des 201618min

Hydraulic systems can suffer from a number of abnormal situations. Pump low pressure, reservoir overheat, Reservoir low air pressure and reservoir low level. The electric pumps on the blue and yellow ...

12 Des 201626min

Flight Control Laws The flight control law is basically the relationship between the pilot's input on the side stick and the resulting aircraft or flight control surface response. There are 3 flight c...

5 Des 201624min

This system is closely linked to the Air Conditioning system which we discussed back in episode 2. If you havent listened to it already it may be worth going back and listening to that first.   The ma...

29 Nov 201619min

What is OEB48? Well basically it's an Operations Engineering Bulletin that was issued by Airbus to all operators to cover the possibility of all AoA probes becoming "blocked" which could then cause th...

21 Nov 201617min

Every Summer when we both have our LOE simulator tests we will give you a run through of what we had and how we dealt with it.   The events Matt had were, - ACP 2 failure - FWC 1&2 fault - FCU 1&2 fau...

14 Nov 201623min

This week we look at the Air Asia accident where the crew ended up loosing control of the aircraft at high altitude. We've saved you the effort of looking at the 200+ page report but if you wish to re...

4 Nov 201632min