User manual
Table Of Contents
- PBY Catalina
- Introduction
- System requirements
- Credits
- Copyrights
- Contact support
- Models and versions
- Limitations
- Failure model and special features
- Aerosoft Sound Control
- Flight model
- Using the switches and knobs
- Interactive Checklist
- Avionics, 1940’s military cockpit
- Avionics, modern cockpit
- Engine Settings
- Mission
- Appendix A: Simplified checklist
- Appendix B: KX 165A TSO
- Appendix C: KLN-90B User Manual
- INTRODUCTION
- OVERVIEW
- DEFINITIONS:
- SYSTEM USE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES
- CALC: CALCULATOR PAGES
- STAT: STATUS PAGES
- SETUP: SETUP PAGES
- OTHER: OTHER PAGES
- TRIP: TRIP PLANNING PAGES
- MOD: MODE PAGES
- FPL: FLIGHT PLAN PAGE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES (right screen)
- APT: AIRPORT PAGES
- NEAREST Airport Pages
- VOR: VOR Page
- NDB: NDB Page
- INT: INTERSECTION PAGE
- SUPL: SUPPLEMENTAL PAGE (SUP)
- CTR: CENTER WAYPOINT PAGE
- REF: REFERENCE WAYPOINT PAGE
- ACTV: ACTIVE WAYPOINT PAGE (ACT)
- D/T: DISTANCE/TIME PAGES
- MESSAGE PAGE
- DIRECT-TO PAGE
Section 2 Part B
FLIGHT PHASE/EVENT PF PNF
Start approval Contact ground engineer
for starting right hand
engine by hand signal.
Call: 'CHECK RIGHT
HAN
D ENGINE'
Call:
'STARTING RIGHT HAND
ENGINE'
Push starter switch to right
hand e
ngine
Check and call:
'STARTER LIGHT ON'
and count 12 blades
IF ANY HESITATION IN
THE ROTATION OF THE
PROPELLER, RELEASE
THE STARTER SWITCH
AND INVESTIGATE.
Verify and call:
'PROPELLER
STATIONARY, FINE
AND FREE'
Verify
After 12 blades Switch booster pump right
hand engine on
Switch magneto’s right
hand e
ngine to both
Start priming continuously
whe
n engine is cold/
intermittently when engine
is warm
When engine starts
runni
ng call: ‘MIXTURE
AUTO RICH’
Releases start switch and
primin
g switch and calls:
‘STARTER LIGHT OUT’
Slowly moves mixture
control to auto rich a
nd
responds: ‘AUTO RICH’
Verify
Stabilizing
Adjust throttle to 1000
RPM or lower to keep oil
pressure below 100 PSI.
Verify
Call: RIGHT HAND
ENGINE IS STABILIZED’
Repeat procedure for the left hand engine. PF will than verify and call if propeller is
stationary, fine and free.
After the start procedure for both engines is completed, the PF: signals ground crew
member to remove GPU and wheel chocks and asks for the BEFORE TAXI CHECKLIST.
07 ENGINE STARTING WITH BATTERY POWER ONLY
Starting with battery power only should be avoided to save the batteries.
Rev No: 00 Stichting Catalina PH-PBY
Page: 6 18 May, 2004