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Old 7th Nov 2008, 05:50
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That's the way the Engine/Warning Display looks for a CFM-engined Aircraft. N1 Displays (digital and analogue) in the uppermost part of the display and pretty well readable. Notice Fuel Flow Indication is in the 4th line.




For an airframe with the IAE-installation the display looks like this.

EPR indication in the first line with three mickey-mouse-style decimals. Far too small to be well readable, especially during turbulence or darkness.

N1 now in the 3rd line and N2 in the 4th, moving FF out of the way to the right, completely different place than on the CFM-Display. Hard for those setting power according to FF.

For an A321 with 'usual' LWs (ie not empty) the rule of thump is target on approach = 1.0xx where xx is the LW. 70 Tons would give you a target EPR of 1.070. No idea how this works on an A319 with 47 tons (A3192/320s are CFM-ships with us).

If you are unlucky enough to loose EPR-Mode the fun really begins. Instead of interchanging the position of the now xxxed out EPR and the N1 the blank EPR gauges stay at the top and you find yourself looking for the N1s in the 3rd line.
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