380 , it doesn't represent the famous Airbus plane

380 , it's not the first true double-deck passenger airliner for the long-range market , the most spacious and efficient airliner ever conceived . but it represents the first salary in my life and in this internship at Airbus Toulouse . well it's not too much . the famous french expression says it all " C'est mieux que rien " .

A tour in Airbus

today afternoon i have visisted with stephan and Brice the aircrafts for tests .
we went on board of the A320 , A340 , we went into their cockpits and test some activities, specially the braking system . we did a round near the A380 , and take a look on the real landing gear system. well they don't have the same steering systems the three families . the A380 is based on a push pull hydraulic system .On the contrary the A320 is based on a rack and pinion ( a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear ) . the A320 has 6 wheels . the A340 12 wheels . and the 380 22 wheels .

too good to be real

today morning , i went with Noelle , an employee in the landing gear team, to the laboratory at airbus blagnac in order to simulate 3 functions of the BSCU (braking and steering control unit) . the first 2 functions related to the alternate brake fault . and the third was to display an error message in the cockpit of hot brakes . In the labo there is a cockpit just like in the image in which we can simulate the real function of an aircraft , because it is associated to a reproduced parts of plane on the same scale .

i was too lucky today to take off the aircraft ( in simulation of course) in the labo . i have also simulated the brakes . i have visited the labo and saw the hydraulic system in the rudder , wings and landing gear . it was too good to be real . it's not an internship , it's a dream ....

Internship at airbus Toulouse

2 weeks later after the beginning of my internship , i can just say that Airbus is an ideal place for a trainee work. My subject is to develop a tool on simulink/Matlab in order to simulate the BSCU controller (Braking and steering control unit) incorporated in the A320 family Aircraft to control the landing gear and display error messages in the cockpit screen.

Actually the first three days , i have just read the system description note( SDN) to take a general view of the braking and steering of the landing gear system of the plane . then i have read the SADT( Structured Analysis and Design Technique) which gives functional schematic of the BSCU and his interaction with the system such as Monitoring and controlling brakes pressure , temprature , steering angle , ect ...

the second week i have started the real subject , and have just begun to adapt the tool from another one for the A340 .

far from technique , it's a very interesting opprtunity to take contact with people in the industrial world . i work with a team of 12 likeable person ( insaiens well represented 3/12) working on the landing gear of single aisle aircraft . generally they have a mechanical and automatic background . the average age is 35-40 years old . and i'm the only trainee worker in the team .

to be continued .....