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Old 30th Jun 2005, 05:34
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Advisories as Cautions (Boeing airplanes)?

Have been looking at cockpit pictures of Boeing EICAS airplanes (777, 767, 747-400) and noticed that EICAS advisory messages are the same colour as caution messages. The only difference appears to be that advisories are indented a little bit (one space?) or have a sideways chevron in front of them '>'.

Does this confuse pilots? Other than when they first appear on the EICAS, is it difficult to tell them apart? Could you under-react to a caution (thinking it is an advisory), or over-react to an advisory (thinking it's a caution)?

Seems strange to have them the same color, font, etc. Does it get the thumbs up or down?

Any related comments appreciated.
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