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Title: Anybody knows Russian ?
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on June 25, 2005, 10:38:48 pm

Hi folks,

I found a text on a Russian aircraft overhead panel, and I cannot understand its meaning. It is written in cyrill letters as CAPD (pronounced as "sard" in English) and it has some buttons, even have a separate screen on the engineering displays, so it must be an important engineering system, I guess.

I discovered many others, like "CKB" is A/C system, or "BCY" is APU, or DBG means engine, but I cannot do anything with this CAPD ...

Thanks for help.

Title: Anybody knows Russian ?
Post by: EHM-1539 Pierre on June 26, 2005, 04:18:04 am

Hmmm I left Flanker 2 / Lock On a while ago, the few I knew fade away ^^. I can ask old buddies I was flying with in patrol, most of them know russian and are psychos when it's about russian avionics.
Maybe you can precise what the aircraft model is...

Title: Anybody knows Russian ?
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on June 26, 2005, 12:02:38 pm

This is not the military world :) I have seen this text on some passenger aircraft cockpits, like Il-86, Il-96, Tu204...

Here is an example:

(http://www.fw.hu/btm/ehm/question.jpg)

Title: Anybody knows Russian ?
Post by: EHM-1465 Dominic on June 27, 2005, 11:32:01 am

Robert,

I studied Russian at school back in the 80's but we didn't cover much about aircraft systems, just how to ask your way to the Post Office...:P And the Russian dictionaries I've got didn't help either.

However a short Google search led me to a site you might want to visit: http://www.aviation.ru/FAQ/IK/faq_3.html

I've checked this English-Russian Aviation Dictionary and I can't find any exact matches to 'SARD' but many of the other buttons in your picture contain abbreviations to their systems. So I think the closest match may be in Section 8 - the Pressurization System (Sistema Regulirovaniya Davleniya v Kabinye) as the main three words start with S,R and D... the SA maybe being an abbreviation for SistemA?

The Cabin Pressure system would seem a logical button to be near the Air Conditioning button too... It's a guess but a reasonably educated one I think ;) If anyone knows better, I'd be quite happy to be proved wrong ;D

Hope this helps!

Title: Anybody knows Russian ?
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on June 27, 2005, 08:04:46 pm

Hi Dominic!

Thanks for the answer and the link. It is a perfect guess, I think ;D I thought about the same, as I found the SARD panel section always near the Ventilation/Air Conditioner panels. Now I only have to find out, what are those 3 buttons used for?

Thanks again :)

Title: Anybody knows Russian ?
Post by: EHM-1539 Pierre on June 27, 2005, 09:16:32 pm

1 : Inflate plane
2 : Deflate plane
3 : Explosive decompression (when passengers bug you)

All right, told you it was a long time ;D