Driven by the Garmin integrated
flight deck, the GHD projects a familiar presentation of critical flight information, symbology and more.
It's that implied misogyny, where [women's] mere presence in the
flight deck is something that's less respected than the presence of a man," the pilot stated.
Under an earlier Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD) contract, Boeing installed a new digital
flight deck and avionics on one NATO AWACS.
Captain Fred Abbott, the airline senior vice president of flight operations, said, 'The paperless
flight deck represents the next generation of flying.
Loading bombs and getting them to the
flight deck takes 400 people every time we move ordnance to the
flight deck.
Night operations were rotated between carriers to keep the burden on
flight deck crews to a minimum.
As a result, given the frenetic nature of Japanese CAP operations after about 0800 (particularly aboard Akagi and Kaga), it is unlikely that many of these second-wave aircraft were ever spotted on the
flight decks before the fatal American dive-bomber attack commenced at 1020.
The 757/767 upgrade, inspired by Rockwell Collins advanced
flight deck technology on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, features three large-format LCD displays that replace six cathode ray tube (CRT) displays and numerous analog instruments to provide operators with a number of benefits, including:
The new device is a cursor slew hat-switch mounted on the collective of theMD902 Explorer equipped with the Universal Avionics Next Generation
flight deck, which is on display at theMDHelicopters booth.
