A320 LIM ITATIONS.

Kinds of Operations.
- Certified as public transport category (passengers & freight).
- Day & night operations.
- VFR & IFR.
- Extended overw ater flight.
- Flying in icing conditions.
- M ax number of passengers: 180.

M inimum flight crew – minimum of 2 pilots

C.G. limitation
- Betw een the M AC chord length (4.139m).
In M TOW:
- Forw ard limit 17%
- AFT limit 42%

Weight Limitation
- M ax Taxi Weight – 73,900 kg
- M TOW – 73,500 kg
- M LGDW – 64,500 kg
- M ZFW – 61,000 kg
- M inimum Weight – 37,230 kg

Load Limit
- Clean CONF - +2.5G's - -1G's
- Other than clean CONF – 0G's - +2G's

Airport Operations
- Slope - +/ - 2%
- Runw ay alt. – 9200 ft.
- Runw ay w idth – 45m
- M ax crossw ind – 38 KTS includes the gusts.
- M ax tailw ind – 10 KTS.
- M ax w ind for passenger door – 65 KTS.
- M ax w ind for cargo door – 40 KTS (up to 50 KTS in case the nose of the aircraft face to the
w ind). The cargo door has to be close before reaching the speed of 65 KTS.

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 Speed limitations
- VM O/ M M O – 350KTS/ 0.82M ACH
- VA – 0.78M ACH
- VFE:
 CONF 1 – 230KTS
 CONF 1+F – 215KTS
 CONF 2 – 200KTS
 CONF 3 – 185KTS
 CONF FULL – 177KTS
- VLE – 280KTS
- VLO:
 Extraction – 250KTS
 Retraction – 220KTS
- M ax operation altitude for the L/ G – 25,000 ft.
- M ax tire speed – 195KTS
- M ax w indshield wipers – 230KTS
- M ax cockpit w indow – 200KTS
- Taxi Speed w ith GW of more than 76,000 turn should be made w ith speed no greater than
20 KTS.
- Stall speed – computes by the graphs.

Pressurization System:
- M ax positive cabin pressure Δ - +8.6psi.
- M ax negative cabin pressure Δ - -1.0psi.
- M ax cabin altitude – 8000 ft.
- Cabin altitude w arning – 9550 ft. (+/ -350ft.)
- M ax cabin alt. selection – 14,000ft. / -2000ft.
- M ax pressure Δ and safety valve setting tolerance – 0.1psi
- Ram air inlet – w ill open if pressure Δ below 1.0psi

Air conditioning system:

- With LP ground unit:
 Don’t us the packs and the LP unit together.
 Air from the unit should not be more than 1.2 kg/ s.
- With HP ground unit:
 Don't us the APU bleed air together w ith the HP unit can cause damage to the bleed
system.

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 Auto pilot functions:
- T/ O w ith SRS mode – 100 ft. limited by the FM GS to by engaged only 5 sec after T/ O.
- M inimum Heights to use:
 Straight-in NPA – M DA/ M DH
 Straight-in LNAV/ VNAV approach – DA
 Circling Approach – M DA-100ft. (M DH-100ft.)
 ILS CAT II & CAT III w ithout FM A – 160ft. AGL
 Go-Around – 100ft. AGL
 All other phases – 500ft. AGL
- A/ THR – Approved for use w ith or w ithout AP/ FD in selected or managed mode.

FM GS:
- Can be used for the follow ing NPA in NAV, NAV FINAL modes:
 VOR, VOR/ DM E, NBD, NBD/ DM E, RNAV (includes GPS) w ith the use of AP/ FD
- Engine Out – No use of the AP in NPA's only FD in NAV, NAV V/ S, NAV FPA modes.

Auto Approach and landing & Rollouts:

- CAT II:
 M inimum DH – 100ft.
 At least one AP is engaged and CAT 2, CAT 3 SINGLE, CAT 3 DUAL on t he FM A.
 If no Auto land disengaged AP no later than 80 ft.
- CAT III – FAIL PASSIVE (SINGLE):
 M inimum DH – 50ft.
 At least one AP is engaged and CAT 3 SINGLE, CAT 3 DUAL on the FM A
 M ust have A/ THR engaged in selected or managed mode.
- CAT III – FAIL OPERATIONAL (DUAL)
M ust have A/ THR engaged in selected or managed mode.
Alert height – 100ft.
 CAT III w ith DH:
i. M inimum DH – 25ft.
ii. Both AP's are engaged and CAT 3 DUAL on the FM A.
 CAT III w ithout DH:
i. Both AP's are engaged and CAT 3 DUAL on the FM A.
ii. M inimum Runw ay visibility – 75m.
- Engine Out:
 CAT 2, CAT 3 SINGLE & DUAL approved only in CONF FULL and that the engine out
procedures been complete before reaching 1000ft. in t he approach.

M aximum Conditions for CAT II or CAT III Automatic Approach:

- Headw ind – 30KTS
- Tailw ind – 10KTS
- Crossw ind – 20KTS
- If tow er w ind are above the limitation sw itch to CAT I w ithout Auto Land.

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 Electrical system:
- M ax continuous load per generator – 100% (90KVA)
- M ax continuous load per TR – 200A

Flight Controls:
- Flaps & Slats extended max operation altitude – 20,000ft.

Fuel:
- Fuel imbalance:
 Inner Tanks:
Quantity Imbalance
FULL 1,500 kg
4,300 kg 1,600 kg
2,250 kg 2,250 kg
 Outer Tanks:
M ax Imbalance – 530 kg
M ax Imbalance (one full/ one empty) if:
i. Wing 1 (outer + inner) = w ing 2 (outer + inner)
ii. If Inner 1 < Inner 2 so Outer 1 > Outer 2 (but not more than 3000kg.)

- Temperatures:
 Jet A1:
M inimum Temp – (-)43°C
M aximum Temp – 54°C
 For Jet A1 only – If the TAT is -34°C you should follow t he FUEL ECAM page and make
sure that the TAT is higher than -36°C.

- M inimum Fuel For Takeoff – 1500kg

 Wing TK LO LVL w arning must not display on the ECAM for takeoff.

- M ixing fuel:
 When mixing different kind of fuel the higher freezing temp of the tw o w ill considered
as the new freezing temp.
Hydraulics:
- Normal operation pressure – 3000psi +/ -200

Breaks:
- M ax break temp on takeoff- 300°c
- Tire deflated:
 One tire – w hile taxing in turns speed should be no more than 7KTS
 Tw o tires – w hile taxing in turns speed should be no m ore than 3KTS and N/ W steering is
limited max to 30°

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 - N/ W steering:
 Hand Wheel – limited to 75°
 Rudder – 6°
 Tow ing bar – 95°
 Tow barless tow ing car – 85°

Navigation:
- IR's – Can provide magnetic HDG only betw een N73 to S60. Flying outside above the noted is
prohibited.
- GPWS – When aircraft position is less than 15 nm from the airfield the predictive function
should be inhibited (TERR P/ B OFF) if:
 Runw ay information is not incorporated in the GPWS database.
 Associated SID that may trigger false alerts.
- ISIS – If PFD's are not w orking, do not you the ISIS bug functions

Oxygen:
- Emergency Descent – oxygen available for all cockpit crew members up to 13 min.
- Cruising at FL100 – oxygen available for 2 cockpit crew members for up to 107 min.
- Smoke protection – 100% pure oxygen is available for all cockpit crew members for up to 15
min in cabin altitude of 8,000 ft.
APU:
- Oil quantity:
 Can be start even if the LOW OIL LVL ECAM advisory is displayed. M aintenance action is
required in the next 10 hrs.
- Starter – after 3 starter cycles, w ait 60 min before attempting 3 more cycles.
- Rotor speed:
 M ax N% - 107% the APU w ill automatically shuts dow n if reaching to 107% the ECAM w ill
show 106% prior to shut dow n.
- EGT:
 M ax EGT temp – 675°C
 M ax EGT temp for start (below 35,000ft.) – 1019°c
 M ax EGT temp for start (above 35,000ft.) – 1120°c
- Envelope:
 Ground starting and operation limit – 15,000ft.
 APU battery starting limit (ELEC EM RG CONFIG) – 25,000ft.
 AP restart & operation limit (normal A/ C pow er) – 41,000ft.
 APU Bleed & Generator – up t o 22,500ft.
 APU Generator only – up to 41,000ft.
- Electric pow er:
 At or below 25,000 ft.
ISA + 35° and below – 90KVA
- Bleed Air:
 Supplies 2 packs – up to 15,000 ft.

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  Supplies 1 pack – from 15,000ft. up to 22,500ft.
Pow er Plant:
- Thrust set ting & EGT limits:
Operation Condition Time limit EGT limit Notes
Takeoff & Go Around 5 min 635°C
10 min Engine Out
M CT Unlimited 615°C
Starting ------ 635°C

- Oil:
 Temperature:
i. M ax prior exceeding idle – (-)10°c
ii. M in prior takeoff – (-)50°c
iii. M ax continuous temp – 155°c
iv. M ax transient temp (15 min) – 165°c
v. M ac starting temp – (-)40°c
vi. M in oil quantity – 11 qt.
 Oil minimum pressure – 60psi

- RPM :
 N1 – 100%
Limit is upon ambient conditions and engine bleed air configuration these may cause the
N1 limit to be low er than the one noted (see in-flight performance)
 N2 – 100%

- Starter:
 3 consecutive cycles: 2 cycle of 2 minutes each and 3rd cycle of 1 minute.
 Pause betw een each start attempt of 15 seconds
 Cooling period following 3 start at tempts or 4 minutes of cranking – 30 minutes
 No running engagement of the starter above 10% N2 on ground and above 18% N2 in-
flight.

- Revers Thrust:
 Not permitted In-flight.
 Not permitted to back the airplane
 M ax Rev should not be used below 70 KTS. Idle Rev permitted dow n to aircraft stops.

- Reduced takeoff thrusts;

 M ax FLX temp – ISA + 55°c

- Crossw ind operation on ground:

 Capable of starting in crossw ind up to 35kts.

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