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Old 3rd Mar 2014, 07:05
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Reely340
 
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...and to show y'all the cockpit/CPDS setup;

https://translate.google.co.uk/trans...bertechnik.htm
Yikes! where is the long row of separate red warning lights?
I expected a good dozen of real, old style, filament driven, red warning lights on the very top end of the shrouded instrument panel, so that them lighting up would be noticable via peripheral vision even when looking out front.

Something similar to the topmost row of ~15 squares as seen here http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/9Be6cx9J0-s/maxresdefault.jpg

My impression was that the yellow caution "lights" are done via screen display, with only the master caution being a real light / pushbutton (to aknowlegde the caution) but that all red warning lights were still implemented as separate, old style lights. Thus should the fancy screens malfunction or turn black ("only" serving caution lights at best anyhow) the red warning lights would still function, being a totally different, screen-independent (=old stlye) set of individual lights.

edit: I think I found the red lights, they are at the empty black areas, near the illuminated "Rotor RPM" red warning. I was searching for press-to-test type light sockets of a last milennium type S300C, my bad. I'm defnitely not fully awake yet.

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