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February 26th 04, 07:30 PM
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:23:51 -0500, Todd Pattist
wrote: Tony Verhulst wrote: Slightly off topic, I remember reading about a (pre-digital) military transport where the flight engineer's station was designed so that when everything was operating normally, all dials pointed in the same direction. It almost trivialized detecting abnormalities. This is standard in race car instrumentation. The gauges are rotated when they are installed so that all needles point up when they're "in the green" during a race. Trivial point, but why is it that in the US ASIs tend to point down when 'in the green', but in the UK we mount them the other way up? Its obviously intentional because the numbers are oriented to suit. -- martin@ : Martin Gregorie gregorie : Harlow, UK demon : co : Zappa fan & glider pilot uk : 
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