Boeing 747-400 flight deck (with notes)
This picture was taken while enroute from Chicago to Prestwick/Scotland when the aircraft was overflying the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Canada (ref. flickr map view).
The instruments that are visible in the picture (see original size) provide the following information about the flight progress:
Primary Flight Display (PFD)
- Pitch angle: 3 deg
- Bank angle: 0 deg
- Calibrated airspeed: 303 kts
- Mach number: 0.848
- Target Mach number: 0.85
- Pressure altitude: 33,000 ft i.e. flight level 330
- Target altitude: 33,000 ft
- Vertical speed: 0 feet per minute (level flight)
- Baro setting: STD (standard pressure 1,013.25 HPa)
- Autopilot: CMD (engaged in command mode)
- Autopilot modes: LNAV and VNAV PTH*
- Autothrust mode: SPD**
*) The autopilot follows the lateral flight plan and the vertical flight path (profile) from the Flight Management Computer (FMC).
**) The autothrust follows the speed target from the FMC.
Navigation Display (ND)
- True airspeed: 504 kts
- Ground speed: 585 kts
- Magnetic heading: 102 deg
- Wind: 279 deg, 80 kts (tailwind)
- next waypoint: VIXUN (located at Random Island, Newfoundland, Canada)
- time at next waypoint: 15:39 UTC
- distance to next waypoint: 377 NM
- Tuned navaid: YSJ (St. John VOR/DME)
- Magnetic bearing from station (radial outbound): 068 deg
- Distance to station: 171 NM
This fixes the aircraft position over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, north of Prince Edward Island and west of the Iles de la Madeleine.
Upper EICAS Display
- EPR: 1.57 (engine pressure ratio)
- N1: 92 % (engine low pressure rotor speed)
- EGT: 550 deg C (exhaust gas temperature)
- Static air temperature: -40 deg C
- Fuel temperature: -14 deg C
- Gross weight: 327.0 t
- Fuel: 59.1 t
Multi-Purpose Control and Display Unit (MCDU)
[left]
- upcoming waypoint (after VIXUN): LOGSU (N58:46.55 W051:00.00)
- time at upcoming waypoint: 15:51 UTC
- distance to upcoming waypoint: 488 NM
- destination airport: EGPK (Prestwick/Scotland)
- estimated time of arrival: 19:16 UTC
- fuel remaining at destination: 13.3 tons
[right]
- next waypoints: VIXUN, LOGSU, 49N50W, 54N40W, 58N30W
Boeing 747-400 flight deck (with notes)
This picture was taken while enroute from Chicago to Prestwick/Scotland when the aircraft was overflying the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Canada (ref. flickr map view).
The instruments that are visible in the picture (see original size) provide the following information about the flight progress:
Primary Flight Display (PFD)
- Pitch angle: 3 deg
- Bank angle: 0 deg
- Calibrated airspeed: 303 kts
- Mach number: 0.848
- Target Mach number: 0.85
- Pressure altitude: 33,000 ft i.e. flight level 330
- Target altitude: 33,000 ft
- Vertical speed: 0 feet per minute (level flight)
- Baro setting: STD (standard pressure 1,013.25 HPa)
- Autopilot: CMD (engaged in command mode)
- Autopilot modes: LNAV and VNAV PTH*
- Autothrust mode: SPD**
*) The autopilot follows the lateral flight plan and the vertical flight path (profile) from the Flight Management Computer (FMC).
**) The autothrust follows the speed target from the FMC.
Navigation Display (ND)
- True airspeed: 504 kts
- Ground speed: 585 kts
- Magnetic heading: 102 deg
- Wind: 279 deg, 80 kts (tailwind)
- next waypoint: VIXUN (located at Random Island, Newfoundland, Canada)
- time at next waypoint: 15:39 UTC
- distance to next waypoint: 377 NM
- Tuned navaid: YSJ (St. John VOR/DME)
- Magnetic bearing from station (radial outbound): 068 deg
- Distance to station: 171 NM
This fixes the aircraft position over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, north of Prince Edward Island and west of the Iles de la Madeleine.
Upper EICAS Display
- EPR: 1.57 (engine pressure ratio)
- N1: 92 % (engine low pressure rotor speed)
- EGT: 550 deg C (exhaust gas temperature)
- Static air temperature: -40 deg C
- Fuel temperature: -14 deg C
- Gross weight: 327.0 t
- Fuel: 59.1 t
Multi-Purpose Control and Display Unit (MCDU)
[left]
- upcoming waypoint (after VIXUN): LOGSU (N58:46.55 W051:00.00)
- time at upcoming waypoint: 15:51 UTC
- distance to upcoming waypoint: 488 NM
- destination airport: EGPK (Prestwick/Scotland)
- estimated time of arrival: 19:16 UTC
- fuel remaining at destination: 13.3 tons
[right]
- next waypoints: VIXUN, LOGSU, 49N50W, 54N40W, 58N30W