What do all the controls in an airplane cockpit do?

[Murawski 21]

Long read.... Should of game PMDG some credit for the screen shots! :(http://www.quora.com/What-do-all-the-controls-in-an-airplane-cockpit-do

[Tyty7793 0]

I thought they were there to make people go "oooh aahhh" as they look at them.

[JSkorna 137]

I thought they all helped fly the plane?

[Tabs 2,790]

The guy spent a lot of time on that, but there's quite a lot of inaccuracies there hehe...

[John_Thomas 0]

So, how many of you know where the memory device is in the 737 NG cockpit, and what purpose does it serve? HINT: It has three little knobs on it. Amazingly, it actually functions in the PMDG NGX simulation just as it does in the real world. Signed,John C. Thomas

[Fabo 213]

John, which memory do you mean, FDR, CVR or FMC database? :)Ryan: Looks good enough to me as a general overview for a member of general flying public, even though I stopped at some things myself. It is fairly well written if you consider the target audience.

[3-2-1-Now 126]

<Insert 5 minute explanation of basic systems of the aircraft by Captain here (e.g. throttles, landing gear lever)>Question from passenger: "Is that your hat?"Best regards,Robin.

[John_Thomas 0]

John, which memory do you mean, FDR, CVR or FMC database? :)

The memory device in question has three rotary knobs on it and is fully functional in the PMDG NGX virtual cockpit. :)Signed,John C. Thomas

[davierosoft 13]

John, which memory do you mean, FDR, CVR or FMC database? :)Ryan: Looks good enough to me as a general overview for a member of general flying public, even though I stopped at some things myself. It is fairly well written if you consider the target audience.

If I understand correctly (is the only thing related to "memory" with 3 knobs and simulated only on NGX), is something related to our memory, it is a thing mounted on each control wheel, 3 knobs and digits... to use as a personal "memory device".

[JazzPilot 0]

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The memory device in question has three rotary knobs on it and is fully functional in the PMDG NGX virtual cockpit. :)Signed,John C. Thomas

It's clearly the memory device on each yoke (with the 3 numbers which you can individually change from 0 to 9).When we have a flight number with 4 numbers however, I always set the last 3 numbers and just remember the first one, which is 6 in most of the cases.Example: Flight number: 6789. Memory device: 789.Still very useful :)Strict Standards: Declaration of group_forum_breadcrumb::sendOutput() should be compatible with that of output::sendOutput() in /opt/webdocs/newsite/forum/hooks/group_forum_breadcrumb_d29bf565a59f776807044fd19e49258a.php on line 107

The memory device in question has three rotary knobs on it and is fully functional in the PMDG NGX virtual cockpit. :)Signed,John C. Thomas

It's clearly the memory device on each yoke (with the 3 numbers which you can individually change from 0 to 9).When we have a flight number with 4 numbers however, I always set the last 3 numbers and just remember the first one, which is 6 in most of the cases.Example: Flight number: 6789. Memory device: 789.Still very useful :)