What is your CSC input?

What is your CSC input?

• A. Your bearing hold and resolved ADF bearing
• B. The aircraft altitude
• C. The airspeed
• D. Ground distance

Answer: (A)

The CSC input is the bearing information used to steer the aircraft along a course. It relies on the bearing to the navigation aid and the current bearing from the ADF, so the system can hold a specific course. In practice, you select a bearing to fly, and the CSC uses the bearing you want to hold together with the resolved ADF bearing (the current line-of-sight bearing to the NDB) to generate the course steering commands. Altitude, airspeed, and ground distance aren’t used by the course steering function in this context: altitude and airspeed are managed by their respective hold controls, and ground distance is simply a measurement to the station rather than the command the CSC needs to maintain a course.

The CSC input is the bearing information used to steer the aircraft along a course. It relies on the bearing to the navigation aid and the current bearing from the ADF, so the system can hold a specific course. In practice, you select a bearing to fly, and the CSC uses the bearing you want to hold together with the resolved ADF bearing (the current line-of-sight bearing to the NDB) to generate the course steering commands.

Altitude, airspeed, and ground distance aren’t used by the course steering function in this context: altitude and airspeed are managed by their respective hold controls, and ground distance is simply a measurement to the station rather than the command the CSC needs to maintain a course.