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Old 22nd Feb 2014, 09:11
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awblain
 
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Too much amber text?

It shows four legitimate warnings, and perhaps a needless statement of the state of the pitot heater.

Prime pumps on is unusual, main tank pumps off is unusual, but it's not impossible you'd want it that way - so they're cautions. Neither are red warnings. If a pump had failed, then it would probably be right to note it in red.

Too many cautions? Well there is the screens and screens of ECAM factor to consider from QF32 for example, but the unusual settings need to be noted somewhere, and if everything is normal there should be no mention: perhaps pitot heater off should be an amber and pitot heater/pitot failed as a red, rather than normal as green?
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