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Some of Hardys work in use with a fixed base sim (twitch)

Started by dts, Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:40

Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers

Quote from: Hardy HeinlinWhat's the point of having a FMC master switch or FMC NAV source selectors if the selection was automatic anyway? Some aircraft have AUTO on the ADC source selection, or IRS selection -- that's optional -- but none have AUTO on NAV and FCC source selectors, for example.
The 744 is a bit over-designed, I believe. It was the first aircraft of its kind with so much electronics on the flight deck. It has much more manual switching options than its successors such as the 777. Likely the engineers and/or authorities did not dare yet to fully rely on the automatic switchovers though they were in place.


Hoppie