L-1011 Trainer Installation: Radio Head Cabling - ARINC 429 Prep

L-1011 Trainer - Radio ARINC 429 Cabling

The picture above is a good illustration of what most of the build sessions over the last few weeks have looked like. While there is lots of good progress, they are hard to really blog about. However, what you see in the image above is cabling work done on the Center Panel. The panel is home to the communication radios, the #3 INU CDU and the audio panels. There is also a controller for ATC as well the radar controller. The radios had been cabled to 24V DC and 440Hz 110V AC power a few weeks ago, however last night we installed the cabling for the ARINC 429 connections that will read data from the instruments and also send data to the displays.