Switch position (Up or down?)

[Dumb Pilot]

Got Hobbies?

 

[freightdogfred]

Back or forward, up or down, just don't touch it if it's got dust on it.

 

[landlover]

i just read the switch and if that doesnt work, trial and era sure does. :smash:

 

[johnnyb]

European aircraft designers use a light switch ( the one on the wall at your home ) mentality.

Down - off
Up - on

 

[spiffomatic]

i just read the switch and if that doesnt work, trial and era sure does. :smash:

which era?

 

[igneousy2]

The change over on an MD80 is below the glare shield. down is on and up is off on the glare shield and overhead panel...below it is off is down and up is on.

My favorite switch on the MD80 is the yaw-damp..."on" is on, :"off" is maybe on or off, and "overide" is off.

Engineers don't fly airplanes...it is only recenly that they have even attempted to ask the pilots how a flight deck should be designed. Unfortunatelly when they do ask the airlines it is usually the management/school-house types that get sent which is an improvement but you still end up with a flight-deck with not enough cup holders. I wonder how many generations of aircraft it will take for Boeing to figure out that they need to put a trash can where the PA handset is-In reach of both pilots during flight and the cabin cleaners on the ground.

Later

 

[BlueandWhite]

Doesn't Gulfstream also use a backwards speed tape? In other words high speed is at the bottom of the tape?

The GIV if I remember right had the tape backwards. That was corrected w/the GV and follow-ons.

 

[airplane wizard]

Jerk to Inflate

73

words to live by

 

[Huggyu2]

Doesn't Gulfstream also use a backwards speed tape? In other words high speed is at the bottom of the tape?

Now why is that backwards? With the altimeter tape, the numbers that would equate to pulling the nose up are at the top. So, wouldn't it make sense to do the same with the speed tape, e.g. pull the nose up, speed goes lower?

 

[Thedude]

Now why is that backwards? With the altimeter tape, the numbers that would equate to pulling the nose up are at the top. So, wouldn't it make sense to do the same with the speed tape, e.g. pull the nose up, speed goes lower?

Uh, no that would be counter-intuitive. Some of the Asian birds we have, have the overhead switches backwards. Gets a little confusing trying to turn the landgings lights on/off. I will for one be glad when Boeing stops letting the customer custom order such things as switchology.
Back to MS Flight sim for you.

 

[Spooky 2]

Uh, no that would be counter-intuitive. Some of the Asian birds we have, have the overhead switches backwards. Gets a little confusing trying to turn the landgings lights on/off. I will for one be glad when Boeing stops letting the customer custom order such things as switchology.
Back to MS Flight sim for you.

Not quite. There are hundreds of options for say a new B777/747 and it unlikely that any two airlines have the exact same configuration. Drives me nuts some times.

 

[Huggyu2]

Uh, no that would be counter-intuitive.

Unless I'm missing your tongue-in-cheek, I'd say "Uh, yes, it's very intuitive". Explain how that is counter intuitive. I've flown with both, and my current ride has it set up this way.

 

[igneousy2]

Now why is that backwards? With the altimeter tape, the numbers that would equate to pulling the nose up are at the top. So, wouldn't it make sense to do the same with the speed tape, e.g. pull the nose up, speed goes lower?

Actually - I think with the altimeter it has nothing to do with where you are pulling the nose it has everything to do with the altitudes above you are on the top and the altitudes below you are on the bottom. You should have higher altitudes on top, you should have higher speeds on top - just like you have higher RPMs on top and higher PSI's on top.

 

[Scrapdog]

I am working on a project regarding switch positions on different aircraft. It would help me out if anyone could let me know the airplane they fly and if your aircraft requires up or down for the ON position.

I have noticed there doesn't appear to be any standardization in switch positions. On some airplanes down equals ON and on other aircraft it equeals OFF. Some manufactures even produce different switch positions (up vs. down) for different airlines. For example, a Northwest Airlines' A320 landing light switch is opposite of most other airlines (down equals ON).

In the F-22 we just think the position we want and the jet mind melds with us.

 

[Scrapdog]

This one has always made me nuts:
On the CRJ

-The yoke R/T is down, I/C is up
-Console R/T is up, I/C is down

-WTF-
-Did these people never talk to one another about this?

-Just damn!

Jmoney - the root cause of your problem is you took a job where you had to fly an RJ in the first place.