V700 & V800
Thanks for the correction Paper Tiger.
The version I gave was told to me by the check captain checking me out on the V832 . It was a vast improvement on the V700 in all respects & was only improved at the insistence of the U.S.
airline company, as you say Continental.
For example the instrument lighting on the 800 series was integral & adjustable over a good range with a rheostat placed where you could reach it & you could actually read the instruments at night!
The 700 lighting was post lighting & if you adjusted it for one part of the panel another part was not illuminated properly.
No matter what you did the most conspicuous thing on the ASI was the filament of the lamp reflecting off the instrument glass.
Adjust it to correct this & you could hardly read the ASI.
All this due to Vickers neglecting to get any input from pilots in the design stage of cockpit layout.
What Emeritus says re flying three completely different types in one day may sound incredible but it is true. Was it dangerous & lead to incidents ? Yes . Did it cause the Company any concern ? No.
Last edited by Capt. Crosswind; 18th Jun 2002 at 07:48.