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Gavilan College AMT 111
Aircraft Landing Gear Systems
Worksheet #1
Points: 24
List three basic landing gear arrangements:
1.
2.
3.
4. How are aircraft with a caster nose wheel steered?
5. What is the name of the mechanism that attaches more than one wheel to a landing gear
strut?
6. Retractable landing gear is used to reduce?
7. What is the most common method of landing shock dissipation?
8. Another name for air/oil strut is?
9. Shock strut metering pins are used to control?
10. What is used to link a strut’s upper and lower cylinder and keep the wheel aligned?
11. Insufficient fluid or air will cause a strut to?
12.
is when a wheel’s alignment is converging in the longitudinal axis.
13.
is when a wheel’s alignment is veering away in the longitudinal axis.
14. Alignment of the main wheel in the vertical plain is called?
15. A power pack is the combination of
and
systems.
16. What is used to slow down the lowering of the nose wheel?
17. What is used to control the order that gear doors open and close?
18. What is used to prevent the gear from being retracted doing a takeoff roll?
19. What is used as extra insurance that the landing gear remains down and locked while the
aircraft is on the ground?
20. What is used to inform the pilot of the gear position status?
21. What is used to center the nose gear while it is being retracted?
22. Bearings (should or shouldn’t) be tested by spinning with a blast of air.
23. The gear tiller is used to?
24. Nose gear vibration is controlled with?
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