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Concorde Pilots Instruments
Left you can see the pilots instruments on
G-BOAC. The pilots instruments for the most part were duplicated on the Co-pilots side however to add redundancy some of the instruments were supplied information by seperate systems.
An example can be seen right, the example shows the many points air data information was taken to supply information to the instruments. If one failed then information could be verified through other instruments. In addition standby systems covered basic flight indication.
Pilots Instruments
1. Warning indicators and landing systems
2. INS and RDR indicator lights
3. Instrument Transfer switches for Navigation
4. ASI (Air Speed Indicator)
5. ADI (Attitude Display Indicator) or Artificial Horizon
6. VSI (Vertical Speed Indicator)
7. Radio Altimeter
8. Standby Horizon
9. Marker Beacon Navigation System
10. Accelerometer Moving Index and Angle of Attack
11. Standby ASI / Mach Meter (Air Speed Indicator)
12. Mach Meter
13. HSI (Horizontal Situation Indicator)
14. Flight Director Switch
15. Altimeter
16. T.C.A.S. (see note below)
17. INS Mode Indicators
18. INS Warning Indicators
19. DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) Indicator
20. VOR Indicator (Radio Compass)
21. Sideslip Indicator
22. ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) Indicator
23. Clock (see note below)
24. CGI (Center of Gravity) Indicator
25. Cabin Pressurisation Altitude
Pilots Instruments - Detail
1. Warning indicators and landing systems
2. INS and RDR indicator lights
3. Instrument transfer switches for navigation
4. ASI - Air speed indicator
5. ADI - Attutude display indicator or Artificial Horizon
Information display
Flags and Warnings
6. VSI (Vertical Speed Indicator)
7. Radio Altimeter
8. Standby Horizon
9. Marker Beacon Navigation System
10. Accelerometer moving index and angle of attack
11. Standby ASI/Mach Meter (Air speed indicator)
12. Mach Meter
13. HSI (Horizontal situation indicator)
HSI Information display (MAG Setting)
HSI Information display (True setting)
HSI Flags and warnings
14. Flight Director switch
15. Altimeter
16. TCAS (* See note below)
17. Powerplant rating mode indicators
18. INS Warning indicators
19. DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) Indicator
Indicator - Dual. DME, Clifton
The digitaL dual. DME indicator contains two separate identical display modules ; one is supplied by DME interrogator 1 and the other by DME interrogator 2. Each display module consists of four tubes, each with a seven segment incandescent display. Each tube can display numbers from one to nine and a horizontal bar, or dash. The indicators display hundreds, tens, units and tenths from 000,0 to 399.9 NM.
20. VOR Indicator (Radio Compass)
21. Sideslip indicator
22. ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) Indicator
23. Temperature indicator Later replaced with Clock (* See note bottom of page)
Clock (* See note bottom of page)
24. CGI (Center of Gravity indicator)
25. Cabin Pressurisation Altitude
* Note; Changes to layout During Service for TCAS
The installation of the TCAS system brought about some changes in the layout of the instruments in Concorde, Originally both the pilot and first officer had Temperature indicators on their display panels. The TCAS system took up valuable space on each side of the cockpit so to resolve the issue TCAS was installed where the clock was, the clock was moved down to the next position and replaced the Temperature indicator and the temperature indicator was moved to the center console.
Before TCAS installation
After TCAS installation
Temperature indicator added to center console
