Partial Panel Paranoia

Volume 24
Number 5
May 2004

Loss of your vacuum system or other flight instruments poses a challenge in training and real life, but it’s hardly a death sentence

Partial panel is impossible to realistically simulate in an airplane, making a simulator a much more suitable option.

Staff Report

The chances are pretty good that at some time in the recent past someone slapped a suction cup or a sticky note over one or two of your instruments and declared you had just lost your vacuum system. Your scan took on a different bounce and you continued on your way, convincing yourself that you could, in fact, handle such an emergency in the real world.

Say it ain’t so. …

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