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Friday, August 23, 2024

Presentation at SFENA Paris Orly Airport 1980

 

Attended a Presentation on A300 AFCS Rate Gyro manufactured by Société française d'équipements pour la navigation aérienne or SFENA was a former French avionics company. It was founded in 1947. It was disbanded in 1989. It made the flight control system (AFCS) for Concorde, as well as its artificial horizon and horizontal situation indicator (HSI), and automatic throttle system (ATS)

(Picture from Personal File)

Initially I stayed with my Junior Officer Engineering at Airport Hilton Hotel but after one week I had to move far away suburban area with my friend who forcibly took me at his residence. He was Bank Manager BCCI downtown Paris since long. This move of my friend cost me one surface train (1 hour travel), connected with an underground, then with another underground trains (1 hour travels) and a bus ride of 30 minutes to Orly airport at SFENA training place. It is worth mentioning that I had to purchase a digital watch to catch my first surface train at 06:22 which I missed first day due my analog watch habitual of displaying approximate minutes. This expensive move made me understand “Punctuality with accuracy of Time” first ever in my life

The lesson learned is “In every favor of our loved ones, there is Positivity & Negativity both”



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