Steam guages

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Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
guages" as I am?

Or is it only me...?

Nope, you are not the only one.

Some folks that work with this stuff all the time call them "round dial"
aircraft, as they call the earlier glass/LNAV without GPS aircraft "legacy LNAV."

Bob Noel wrote:

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"Steam guages" strikes me as one of those yuppie-type expressions that
you must use to avoid ostracism by the "in" crowd.

not in any usage I've heard. Folk I know use it do indicate old dumb
gauges as opposed to the new glass stuff...

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Bob Noel
looking for a sig the lawyers will like

Well the usage is certainly changing. Hundreds of days ago in the pre-G1000
era, the phrase "steam gauges" was used only to describe panels that were
laid out by loading all the instruments into a shotgun and firing it at the
panel. Now people are using it to describe any panel where the six basic
instruments don't require an alternator to operate. "Round gauges" strikes
me as more ontologically precise. Inaccurate usage gets my pedantic goat
much faster than egregious cutesiness.

-cwk.

Some of were flying glass flight decks when folks just legal to drink booze
today weren't yet born. (The 767 entered service in 1983.)

I hadn't been, but this posting of yours pushed me over the edge.

wrote:
Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
guages" as I am?

Or is it only me...?

Me too.

"Steam Gauges".... just saying it makes the day better.

Dave B levins

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:12:02 -0600, Paul Folbrecht
wrote:

I hadn't been, but this posting of yours pushed me over the edge.

wrote:
Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
guages" as I am?

Or is it only me...?