Google didn't really narrow it down much but i'm assuming Electronic Flight Display System? What makes it different from the legacy birds?
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T-44 For The P-8?
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I don't really think an electronic HSI and ADI a glass cockpit makes. When people talk about glass, they mean several MFDs that can give you a moving map, attitude and HSI, all the steam gauges, and whatever else the software programmers can dream up. CNS/ATM on an EFDS is pretty gee whiz neato for our community, but it is not this:
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P-8 will have that. Buttonology, CRM, and keeping all the old skills nice and sharp once you've learned how to set up the 5 plasma screen TVs in front of you will be the point behind training in the 44C.
P-8 will have that. Buttonology, CRM, and keeping all the old skills nice and sharp once you've learned how to set up the 5 plasma screen TVs in front of you will be the point behind training in the 44C.
Fair enough, but the T-44C doesn't have all that much more glass than a P-3 with CNS/ATM... I understand the thinking there, but only picking people out of 31 that flew 44Cs seems a little overboard to me... Someone who flies 44As or C-12s could just as easily perform in the P-8. At least thats my expectation... my opinion might change in a year as we transition.
Seems thats why they are identifying students prior to their departure from primary. It seems like a lot of the time the P-3 selectors know the day they select they got P-3s. There are occasions where students find out they got Maritime, but don't know for several days what platform... I get the feeling this coincides with filling the T-44C classes that they project classing up in Corpus. Is it an ideal situation? No, but thats the way it is. If you want P-8s leaving primary, put it down or put P-3s down and you'll transition if your in the community long enough.
I've flown steam gauges, the semi-glass like the P-3 CNS?ATM and full glass. I've found it is harder to go from glass backwards than steam forward. Until steam gauge cockpits no longer exist, everyone should have a good grasp of flying steam prior to going glass. In my opinion, steam gauges provide the pilot with better fundamentals on which to build their skills.
I don't really think an electronic HSI and ADI a glass cockpit makes. When people talk about glass, they mean several MFDs that can give you a moving map, attitude and HSI, all the steam gauges, and whatever else the software programmers can dream up. CNS/ATM on an EFDS is pretty gee whiz neato for our community, but it is not this:.
P-8 will have that. Buttonology, CRM, and keeping all the old skills nice and sharp once you've learned how to set up the 5 plasma screen TVs in front of you will be the point behind training in the 44C.
Now THAT'S a cockpit
Forget all those nasty buttons, behold the Garmin G5000: http://www.flightschoollist.com/aviation-articles/2010/10/the-all-new-garmin-g5000-cockpit/
That's pretty impressive... Too bad the Navy wont cough up the cash for something like that for the P-8.
I dont know if the MPRA community is going to be able to handle an aircraft where all the cockpits look the same, and instrumentation is in a logical and reasonable place.... We're going to have to move some of those screens around in at least a few aircraft...I'll take this one...
I'll take this one...
No HUD on this one? I'm glad Boeing didn't re-invent the wheel with this cockpit.
Definitely needs a standby attitude indicator hidden somewhere random; a few knobs to lights no one uses, a few lights with no conceivable knob to adjust them, and a glare shield that rattles itself loose every time you glance at it sharply. Won't be a proper airplane without these.