What is the deal with tapes?

The 777 is a "tape" aircraft. Many of the pilots who check out on it have prior
glass cockpit experience, but with more "conventional" presentations. But, I have
met one United pilot who spend 20-plus years as captain on the 727 then went
directly to captain on the 777 at age 57, or so.

He had some significant teething problems during simulator training, but once it
"clicked" he loved it. The entire platform is far more intuitive once you have
your brain cells reprogrammed. ;-)

Ash Wyllie wrote:

G Farris opined

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I thought the idea of the tapes was to have a "one-stop" instrument scan
(or almost), rather than having to zap back and forth between different dials
to construct a picture of the situation. After all, you're probably used to
using the little GS indicator on your HSI, if you have one, rather than
having to include the more distant VOR indicator in your scan.

Human factors specialists have written a lot about which instruments are more
"intuitive" to read. They complain about the plain old attitude indicator,
because it violates the basic rule that the moving parts of the instrument
should move in the same direction as the related control inputs.

The human factors people are probably correct, but how does one change the
real horizon to conform with their desires?

-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?