What is the screen mounted in between FMS CDUs? I've only see this in Delta MD-11 cockpits. Also, since the brake pressure and autobrake switches were moved up above this screen from their traditional position, the standby gauges are placed on the sides of CRT #1 and presumably #6 too.
Was it only the Delta MD-11 cockpits in this configuration? Who can shed some light on this little MD-11 mystery of mine?
Mohavewolfpup From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (6 years 6 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 10490 times:
rumor around these parts is that it is for a game of pilot solitare or minesweeper, or asteroids! j/k, I really don't know. would be curious to know also.
Turkee From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 10443 times:
Looks like a video display for a camera that is probably looking down outside the cockpit door. There isn't a lot of interaction, just the three knobs. Contrast, on/off, and a selector switch if there is more than one camera?
CosmicCruiser From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2214 posts, RR: 16 Reply 5, posted (6 years 6 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 10413 times:
Quoting Joffie (Reply 2): Looks like some sort of weather radar, but they are in the main PFD
The wx radar display is on the ND(Nav Display) not the PFD
MD11Fanatic From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 81 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 10327 times:
That blows my mind why Delta felt it necessary to install an additional weather radar screen when no other carrier did. I've never seen a backup like this on any other MD-11 (or Delta plane for that matter.) What's also interesting is the additional backup TCAS and vertical speed indicator. Was Delta expecting those CRTs to blank out at will?
CALPilot From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 995 posts, RR: 15 Reply 8, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 10272 times:
It's a weather radar, look at their B757, and 767's they did it to them too.
Fxra From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 681 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 9830 times:
It is a WX radar, the Delta MD-11's had the extra one installed, for whatever reason. The former DAL airplanes that we operate at WOA have them.
MD11Fanatic From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 81 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 9732 times:
So is it an entirely different weather radar in the nose or does it derive its data from the same source that the NAV display CRT does?
DeltaGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 9725 times:
Quoting MD11Fanatic (Reply 10): So is it an entirely different weather radar in the nose or does it derive its data from the same source that the NAV display CRT does?
Same ol one, same as in the 88, 76/75, 738, all of them. In all of those models, you can superimpose the weather on the ND in map mode, but you still have the CRT in the center- it contains the gain, tilt, brightness, etc knobs. Just because the -11 is all glass (same as the 738), it still has this.
As for the EVSI, I'm sure it's because DL doesn't (didn't) keep an extra supply of older analog VSI's w/o TCAS- plus if all of my displays blanked out, I wouldn't mind having that info.
DALMD88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2366 posts, RR: 15 Reply 13, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 9572 times:
Yes, it is weather radar. Why? Because the DC-8 had one like that. That is why all DL 757/767 have them also. When the planes were ordered someone thought the cockpit should retain this and a couple of other redundant insruments to make the transition from the DC-8 easier.
Nonfirm From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 434 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 9464 times:
Planefreakaa From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 108 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 8933 times:
it is the TCAS, traffic collision avoidance system
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j/k, I really don't know. would be curious to know also.
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