Question about real use of the PVI-800

[Esac_mirmidon]

Hi all,

 

I have a question about the PVI-800 in the Ka-50.

 

¿ How is the regular use of this INU in real life? Some clarifications.

 

Several Ka-50 pilots are in the Briefing room discussing about the Flight Plan. When the FPL is closed what the pilots do?

 

-Write in a paper the coords about WP, flight parameters, meteo, etc, run into the Ka-50 cockpit and in the middle of the starup sequence turn on the PVI-800 and type manually the whole Flight Plan using the paper.

 

-Deliver the FPL to ground or maintenance service, and this personnel open a registry or also climb inside the cockpit and manually program the PVI-800. Then the pilot only needs to verify the data inserted in the starup sequence.

 

-The pilots use some sort of external solid programmable memory to insert the FPL, then when in the cockpit, the memory pod is inserted in the PVI-800 and the FPL downloaded.

 

Anyone knows how the PVI-800 is operated in real life?

 

Thanks.

[m0jo]

In this video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=G5db86vGGDs at 1:41, somebody is holding a huge floppy disk near the Ka-50 cockpit so this might be related to the flight plan of either the ABRIS or the PVI-800. We need somebody to do a translation from russian to english.

[Esac_mirmidon]

The Tornado has a recordable solid memory, the "PODS" where the pilots add the WP of a FLP and then only need to insert the memory pod into the INU to download de FLP.

 

The Ka-50 had something similar or the usual way to operate the INU is inserting manually the WP?

[Sealpup]

I could of sworn I read somewhere that the Ka-50 uses magnetic tape cartridges for uploading data to the computers.

[LazerPotatoe]

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