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OT Airliner Control Wheel
727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297"
737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on this control. The numbers don't seem to correspond to altitude, airspeed, heading, or transponder. -- Scott What's the difference between California voters and the passengers on the Titanic? - The passengers on the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg. (Dennis Prager) |
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On 12/5/2010 12:41 AM, tscottme wrote:
727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297" 737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on this control. The numbers don't seem to correspond to altitude, airspeed, heading, or transponder. Comm frequency? Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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"Dan" wrote in message ... On 12/5/2010 12:41 AM, tscottme wrote: 727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297" 737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on this control. The numbers don't seem to correspond to altitude, airspeed, heading, or transponder. Comm frequency? Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired No, it can't be. The civil VHF comm band is from 118 to 137 MHz with 25kHz channel spacing, so the numbers 297 and 495 don't fit. |
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 00:41:26 -0600, "tscottme"
wrote: 727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297" 737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on this control. The numbers don't seem to correspond to altitude, airspeed, heading, or transponder. http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/forsale/forsale.html http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/trip1.jpg "727,737,747 trip number reminder. That's a lie that has become sort of fact by accident. Started out as an ALTITUDE reminder, so most of these start at #4 in the left column and go no higher. You know why don't you? When it was realized that this thing cost the airlines about $400 each, but exactly ZERO pilots ever used them, they added the 5-0 digits and called them trip number reminders. Number of pilots that used it for that...ZERO. We usually only sell these with the purchase of a wheel for $100. This one has one cog that's broken so we're offering it for $50. Works ok, just not 100% nice." |
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"BobP" wrote in message
... On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 00:41:26 -0600, "tscottme" wrote: 727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297" 737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on this control. The numbers don't seem to correspond to altitude, airspeed, heading, or transponder. http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/forsale/forsale.html http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/trip1.jpg "727,737,747 trip number reminder. That's a lie that has become sort of fact by accident. Started out as an ALTITUDE reminder, so most of these start at #4 in the left column and go no higher. You know why don't you? When it was realized that this thing cost the airlines about $400 each, but exactly ZERO pilots ever used them, they added the 5-0 digits and called them trip number reminders. Number of pilots that used it for that...ZERO. We usually only sell these with the purchase of a wheel for $100. This one has one cog that's broken so we're offering it for $50. Works ok, just not 100% nice." Thank you. I suspected it was some sort of reminder device and possibly not wired into some system. -- Scott What's the difference between California voters and the passengers on the Titanic? - The passengers on the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg. (Dennis Prager) |
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tscottme wrote:
727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297" 737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on this control. The numbers don't seem to correspond to altitude, airspeed, heading, or transponder. Use it for anything you want, trip number, assigned altitude. Or, not use it at all, which a lot of us did. |
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