Airframe systems
Air conditioning and pressurisation, pneumatics and bleed air, doors, ice and rain protection, oxygen, and the cabin and emergency equipment — the systems that keep the aeroplane habitable and the questions that follow from each.
The A320 bank is built the way the aircraft is documented — 2,150 questions across 18 system chapters, so you can revise hydraulics, or autoflight, or the electrical system, one at a time.
The paper
The A320 paper on AIVR CPL is 100 questions in 3 hours, marked out of 100 with a pass at 70. It is useful preparation for a type rating technical exam and for the systems questions that come up at airline interview.
What's inside
Every question is auto-graded, tagged with the chapter it came from and marked Theory or Numerical. Wrong answers are filed in your mistakes bank automatically, per subject.
Air conditioning and pressurisation, pneumatics and bleed air, doors, ice and rain protection, oxygen, and the cabin and emergency equipment — the systems that keep the aeroplane habitable and the questions that follow from each.
The engines and their indications, thrust management and reverse, the auxiliary power unit and what it can supply on the ground and in flight, and the fuel system — tanks, transfer, feeding and the fuel management the FMS expects.
The AC and DC electrical network, generators, the emergency generator and the battery configuration; the three independent hydraulic systems and the power transfer unit and RAT; and the landing gear, its extension and retraction, braking, antiskid and steering.
Fly-by-wire architecture, the control laws and their protections and reversions, the high-lift system and speedbrakes, the autopilot and flight director, autothrust, the flight mode annunciations, and the managed and selected guidance logic.
The flight management system and its navigation database, the MCDU pages the exam actually asks about, the navigation and display architecture, communications, and the ECAM, warnings and indicating chain — including what each level of alert requires of you.
Before you start
This bank is aimed at candidates working towards, or already on, the A320 type — type rating technical exams, recurrent checks, and the systems questions that appear in airline technical interviews.
It is organised by system, not by phase of flight, because that is how the aircraft is documented and how the questions are set.
18 chapters, each mapping to a system: air conditioning, autoflight, APU, communications, doors, electrics, engines, equipment, fire protection, flight controls, FMS and navigation, fuel, hydraulics, ice and rain, indicating and reporting, landing gear, oxygen and pneumatics.
You can therefore take one system to test standard and know precisely what you have covered.
Normal operation is the easy half. The questions that separate candidates are about what happens when something is lost — which law you revert to, which hydraulic system feeds what after a failure, what the RAT and the emergency generator actually power, and which ECAM actions follow.
Revise each system twice: once working, once broken.
Take a single chapter in practice mode, then test mode. Because the chapters are system-shaped, that maps directly onto how a technical examiner will move through the aircraft.
Then sit the full 100-question paper on the clock, which mixes systems the way a real exam does.
Inside a question
Every MCQ is graded the moment you answer it, and the explanation shows the reasoning rather than just the correct letter.
Pick an option and get instant right or wrong with the correct answer revealed — except in exam mode, which reveals nothing until you submit.
Numericals carry the governing equation on its own line, so you can revise by formula before you revise by question.
Worked step by step from the given data to the answer, with nothing skipped.
Every question carries its chapter and whether it is theory or a numerical, so a wrong answer tells you what to revise.
The A320 hydraulic power is provided by:
Worked solution
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2,150 Airbus A320 questions, 18 chapters and a full 100-question paper — waiting, and costing nothing.