Hi !Just found a picture at airliners.net showing a B737NG-cockpit (well, described as "Boeing 737-8... BBJ2") with a panel left of the PFD I've never seen before...what is it?Link to the picture: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/516458/L/Any ideas?Best regards,Stefan Bergert

It's the special BBJ fuel panel.

Hello,It looks like some fuel equipment of some sort.Patrik,

Hi Stefan,It's the Auxiliary Fuel Quantity unit. The BBJ will only have this if the Aux tanks are installed.Cheers,JohnBoeing 727/737 Mechanichttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpg

Thanks a lot for the fast replies, guys! :-)Looking forward to the BBJ ;-)Stefan

One thing I have noticed is that the screen between the FMC panels is blank in the PMDG 737 (And the Default Airlines 737, 777). Why is that?Sorry if its been asked and answered before.Ryan

Didn't want to start a new thread...found this new 737-700 cockpithttp://www.airliners.net/open.file/518242/L/If you look at the captain's ND, you'll notive that on the right-hand side of the airplane-symbol there is a magenta something (think it's a failure flag, but then it would be yellow?)...what's that?Thanks again for any hints,Stefan Bergert

"on the right-hand side of the airplane-symbol there is a magenta something"It's a VOR deviation bar (slightly blurred because it was probably moving when the pic was taken). It's simply showing a fly right indication.I'm a little confused as to why it is present with the IRS's off, however. May have to do some more reading on the subject ;-)Cheers.Ian.

Ian ,They will be there if the nav radios are tuned to a VOR or an ILS and picking up the signal regardless of whether the IRS's are on.You will also get localizer and G/S deviation on the NAV display with a tuned ILS with the IRS off.

Hey,and if you take a close look it has the MCP which is also used on the newer 757

"They will be there if the nav radios are tuned to a VOR or an ILS and picking up the signal regardless of whether the IRS's are on."Hi, WallaceThis one always confuses me...."Automatic" VOR's (VOR pointers on the NDs and the VOR pointers on the RMIs) do seem to need the compass rose (c/o the IRS's). However, if you can see the deviation bar for the Manual VOR display (without IRS's), the displays may be looking at the pilot-selected control panel CRS/Radial and its relationship to the incoming VOR signal.... not where the white VOR deviation scale is sitting (ND heading-wise) and its relationship with the incoming VOR signal.From my experience with 747-400's, without the IRS's on, but with the VOR freq AND course entered, the white VOR deviation scale appears on the VOR ND display, but always "points" upwards. Even though the deviation scale is not pointed at any particular compass heading (as the compass rose is not visible), the ND must assume that the deviation scale is pointing at the pilot-selected CRS and therefore the magenta deviation bar is able to reference itself to the deviation scale. In this situation, do the TO/FROM indications ever appear? (or do they require IRS info?).Cheers.Ian.

okay...:-) Thx again (and again and again...*g* - thought of something like the deviation bar but it looked so blurred *g*)Stefan