I have been wanting to ask this for awhile and have never gotten around to it.On Page 21 of "Tutorial Flight 1" under "Take-off" it gives details of what to do, what sounds to listen for and what to observe on the FMA. This is for a PW engine and specifically it talks about the EPR reading and at what point you should hear a certain sound.The GE engine does not have EPR so you can not use this procedure. I have looked around and could not find anything regarding how to advance the throttles for a GE engine plus when you should expect to hear the same sounds and observe the same readings on the FMA as the tutorial discusses for the PW engine. If this information is available in any of the guides/manuals can someone tell me where to locate it because if it is there I can not find it. If it is not available does anyone have this information tucked away someplace and would they share it.Regards,Rod Storer

Rod,The differences between the PW and GE are relatively subtle and the only real difference in procedures here is that GE procedures normally base the engine settings on N1 for takeoff. Whereas you "stand the throttles" on Pratts at 1.10 EPR, you "stand the throttles" on GEs at about 70% N1 (or at least that was the guideline on the 744 if I remember correctly - it may be slightly different in the MD-11). "Standing the throttles" is a quick way to check that everything is in order with all of your engines before setting full takeoff power and rocketing off. It's not required, from what I understand, but it's somewhat of a best practice.The rest of the noises and indications should be the same. The clicking noise is more dependent on the throttle position than engine EPR/N1 (but I'd have to go back to the manuals to see if I could confirm this). The indications on the FMA should be exactly the same. T/O THRUST is shown when the autoflight system is taking over the thrust settings. When the thrust setting for takeoff is achieved, it will display T/O CLAMP.

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