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Many thanks to these two friendly gentlemen for letting me test my new camera in their “office”! Sorry for the high JPEG image compression -- I found this resolution/size to be the best compromise regarding picture quality and download time. |
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Not a PFD instrument failure -- just the result of too fast a camera shutter speed. Coincidentally, however, it reveals that the PFD screen is being drawn “object by object” (like a LASER show) rather than the entire screen “row by row” like on a TV or computer monitor. Round objects have, therefore, no “stairway” pixel effects. |
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Present position: South of Himalaya, abeam Mount Everest. Lots of turbulences in the upper airspace. Down again to FL290 for an hour. By the way, the difference between the Captain’s and the F/O’s altimeter is smaller than 50 feet, which is within normal tolerances. |
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Now the inner fuel tanks are just a few hundred kilogramms lighter than the outer tanks. The Tank-To-Engine message will appear on the EICAS in a few minutes. |
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It’s getting hotter in the morning sun over India. The pilot is turning the Flight Deck Temp Selector down a bit. The target and actual cabin temps can be monitored on the ECS display on the lower EICAS (hidden by the throttles
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Now it is. The fuel panel in Tank-To-Engine configuration. |
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The fuel synoptic on the lower EICAS indicates Tank-To-Engine configuration is set. |
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The standby altimeter disagrees with the Captain’s altimeter by 70 feet, which is well within normal tolerances. Present position: south of Bangla Desh and still at FL290 (as one can see on the PFD speed indicator the red high/low speed buffet tapes are far on the safe side as the aircraft is -- with ca. 50 tonnes of fuel -- pretty light now). |
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The pilot entered a “predicted ETA fix” on the FMC FIX INFO page as a reminder for the upcoming crew change (i.e. for the wake up call at 07:15 UTC). See the green “donut” on the ND after DOPID. |
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The center CDU ...and a peek on the Qantas specific ACARS software. Displayed here on the screen is an ACARS message with some (traffic) info on two Qantas flights (in BA co-operation) and the respective gate identifiers and local time. |
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© 2000 Hardy Heinlin |