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Most modern commericial passenger airplanes have several digital computers that collect information from sensors, monitor the condition of the aircraft systems, control some functions of these systems and inform/warn the flight crew of problems or failures of these systems. The aircraft will have 2 or 3 computers so that there is plenty of backup systems. The computers received digital signals from sensors in the fuel, hydraulic, air conditioning systems and converts this data and stores it in the computer. The flight crew can view the status of these systems on his CRT Monitor. This data can be viewed as a diagrham or in values. Thus he can see if a Fuel Pump is ON by an icon on the diagrham or he can read the fuel quantity by a number display. Most airplanes have systems that work automatically without any crew input. So if he wants to maintain his aircraft CG, the fuel system will control the burn and move the fuel without any direct "input" to the system. On older aircraft, the crew would have to decided to open a valve or turn on pumps and move fuel as he desired. When a component of a system fails, such as a fuel pump failure, the computer will notify the crew. The crew can deactivate that pump and the computer will continue to "fly the plane" without the use of that deactivated component. Since there are 2 or 3 computers, they must work together. They can look at history of the fault and they can literally take a vote to determine if the discrepancy is real or not. For example, most aircraft have 2 sensors to determine if the landing gear is Down for landing. Suppose one sensor indicates a fault and the other one indicates the gear is down. Then the computer can test the wiring and sensor and if it determines that there is a broken sensor, it will inform the crew that the gear is DOWN. It will ignore the sensor that says the gear is unsafe. Then there is the Flight Computer that the flight crew inputs their navigation data for the airplane to follow when it is on "Auto Pilot".
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