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Old 7th Nov 2008, 19:01
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Hi Chris !

Your comments are spot on.

Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been 7 years), but by definition the EPR is never less than 1?
Not as long as the engine is producing thrust

Obviously AI has already discovered the room for improvement on their own. The Display on the newest ships with the LCD-Screens (instead of the old CRTs) looks completely different again.

As I was told several restrictions imposed by an old DMC-Standard in combinaition with the slow cursor of the CRTs made these changes impossible until the advent of the LCDs.

The IAE-Display looks like this on an LCD:




Much more spacious and the numbers are all the same size. Bravo!

However the LCD-ships take a lot of getting used to, especially if you fly mixed as EVERY page looks more or less completely different. But us lowely outstation-folks are not normally even allowed to touch them, so why do I bother? My broad experience one year after EIS: 1.0 legs!
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