Let'sgoflying! said:
Troy I added some labels, mostly questions. What do you think.
OK, Dave. Here are some answers to the questions. Going left to right from the top of the page:
1. Correct on GS, TAS, wind, etc.
2. Heading bug is on 66 degrees, airplane is on heading 66 degrees. Airplane track over the ground is 62 degrees. That 3 degrees of difference is for the wind.
3. Correct on Adak, except it is 843 Nautical Miles.
4. Correct on next waypoint and that is eta and distance to the waypoint.
5. Correct on the Altitude and VS tapes.
6. Correct on Shemya.
7. The 320 is a range milage. The display can be scaled up or down. THe range is from 10 NM to 640 NM. The range selected is the 640 NM range. In otherwords, you can see out to 640 NM in front of the airplane on that particular scale.
8. The 1220Z is just a time reminder. You can put a time in the Fix page of the FMC and it will display on the Nav display. On oceanic routes like this, we are required to plot our position at 10 minutes after crossing a fix. I suspect that is what that is in there for.
9. Correct on the next waypoint.
10. S/C stands for Step Climb. Depending on what the pilots put in the FMC for step intervals, i.e. 1000 ft steps, 2000 foot, etcetera, that is when it is most advantageous to initiate a climb to the next higher flight level.
11. ARPT stands for Airport. There are several different things that can be displayed on the map. They are controlled by the DSP or Display Selector Panel They include things like Airports, Waypoints, Terrain, Weather, etcetera.
12. Correct on STD. It stands for STanDard, or 29.92 or 1013, depending on whether Inches or Millibars is selected.
13. Everything else is correct.