Acronyms -
In all the discussions on aircraft accidents with the "newer" airplanes mention is always made of the various indicating systems in the cockpit. Back in "my day" it was fairly simple. We had an Airspeed Indicator, Artificial Horizon, Altimeter, Rate of Climb, Slaved Compass, an RMI, and maybe a VOR gauge or two. It all seemed so simple.
But I see references to such things as:
ECAM = Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor
EFIS = Electronic Flight Instrument System
EHSI = Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator
EICAS = Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System
FAC = Flight Augmentation Computer
FADEC = Full Authority Digital Engine Control
FBW = Fly By Wire
FMS = Flight Management System
LNAV = Lateral Navigation
MFD = Mult-Function Display
PFD = Primary Flight Display
VLS = Lowest Selectable Speed
VNAV = Vertical Navigation
Would those of you who fly all this new stuff please add/correct to my list if there are yet more so that I might have a complete list.
Thank you.