Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
The philosophy before the MD-11 looks to be scatter stuff around. They ran out of room in the DC-9, so when they released they needed a standby compass, they put on cockpit back wall and used a mirror to view it.
If you flew it and forgot, that was the easiest ACCURATE location for the standby compass.
Gave plausible deniability for the glare shield vanity mirrors used to flip up and view said compass, too.
MD-11 reverts nicely from speed on thrust, holding altitude, to wake-up auto throttles, if available but off, to switching to speed on pitch to stay off critical stick shaker by 5 knots.
Same in reverse for over speed. LSAS also in play without auto flight. Come on in for an EET/UPRT session for the PLI use demo.