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Old 31st Jul 2013, 13:54
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Clandestino
 
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You who have thought that children of magenta are bad; meet children of Google. They can find any data but can make sense of none.

However, as far as I know, flight deck displays for the current operational environment do not indicate the current time on any display unit.
It's not "current" it is local time. There is current UTC too!

I mean whether pilots want to know the universal time during flying in order to meet the scheduled time of arrival, not the local times.
Airlines generally work with UTC. Local time is for PA only.

I wonder if the indication of universal current time (UTC) on ND will be helpful for pilots while checking universal form ETA and RTA.
No. We already have clocks indicating UTC in airliners' flightdecks.

I wonder if commercial pilots do not need to check universal current time (UTC) during flying.
We do need to check actual time of passing the navigation fix against the navigation log and we perform it using UTC.
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