What you will study
Your ground-study learning path
8 modules · 76 system sections · 77 component explorations · 24 paired cases · 48 formative questions.
Use the handbook and component maps to understand each system, make a prediction before revealing the supplied result, and explain the evidence. Complete every component exploration and all 24 supported case interpretations. The separate 40-question final requires 80% (32 correct). The course completion certificate follows the handbook, lab and final requirements.
00 · Know the airplane and its operating documents
Identify the EX engine, propeller, avionics and serial branch. Understand how a POH, effective-page information, supplements and matched abbreviated checklists relate to the actual aircraft before applying a system explanation.
01 · Fuel from the wings to the engine
Trace wing supply to the reservoir and engine. Distinguish tank-selector roles, motive-flow ejector delivery, electric boost support and separate quantity, pressure and reservoir-level indications.
02 · Engine, propeller and power indications
Connect the PT6A-140 gas and shaft paths to governing and propeller pitch. Distinguish torque, gas-generator speed, propeller speed and interstage turbine temperature by their origins and their roles in cockpit awareness.
03 · Electrical power and essential indications
Follow sources, contactors, protected distribution and loads. Separate a selected source from an available current path, and distinguish bus voltage, generator contribution and battery current in supplied records.
04 · Flight controls, flaps, landing gear and brakes
Trace primary control and trim paths, flap command versus actual surface position, fixed landing-gear load paths, hydraulic braking, parking hold and nose steering. Keep the indication and the physical mechanism distinct.
05 · G1000 information, navigation and flight guidance
Separate displays from their data sources. Compare reversion, selected navigation information, attitude/heading inputs, audio support and flight-guidance capability without treating a surviving display as proof of every connected function.
06A · Air data and ice protection
Map left and right pressure sources, shared standby dependencies, alternate static, heater-current warnings and different warning inputs. Study engine-inlet separation and the optional cargo-pod TKS fluid, pump and indication paths; pneumatic wing boots are not merged into this installation.
06B · Cabin air, defrosting and optional oxygen
Separate hot-bleed admission, mixing, distribution, ram ventilation and the standby vacuum branch. Where installed, distinguish air conditioning airflow from refrigeration, and oxygen cylinder pressure from regulator action, local hose flow and capacity-specific duration-chart inputs.
Learning outcomes
- Trace the named component paths behind cockpit functions and indications.
- Explain how a shared upstream source can affect multiple displays or consumers.
- Distinguish a control selection, component availability and a supplied observed result.
- Interpret new system records using the stated aircraft and installed-option branch.
- Identify what a local indication establishes and what requires separate evidence.
- Keep systems ground-study achievement separate from current operating procedures and pilot qualification.
Aircraft and course applicability
Systems ground study based on the identified POH/AFM 208BPHCUS-01 Revision 1, May 22, 2013 and matched normal/emergency checklists: Grand Caravan EX landplane, Model 208B 867 SHP, PT6A-140, Garmin G1000 and three-blade Hartzell propeller; serials 208B2197 and 208B5000 and on. Optional cargo-pod TKS, conventional-mask oxygen and air conditioning are identified separately where their supplements apply. Earlier PT6A-114/-114A installations, G1000 NXi conversions and unspecified icing installations are outside this course's stated branch. The study edition is not represented as current operational documentation. Actual aircraft operation requires the current controlled POH/AFM, applicable supplements, installed-aircraft identification and appropriate pilot training.
Grand Caravan EX equipment varies. A PT6A-140 EX may have a McCauley four-blade propeller, and some EX airplanes have a 28-volt, 300 A starter-generator. The numerical 2013 POH examples retain their named Hartzell three-blade study baseline; they are not four-blade performance data. Match the installed equipment and its condition-dependent limits to the aircraft’s approved documents.
WWAOG provides independent systems ground study. A course completion certificate records this learning achievement; it does not establish a pilot certificate or rating, flight-review credit, aircraft checkout, icing qualification or operating authorization. Current aircraft-effective operating documents and appropriate flight instruction remain essential.