This is the upper half of the Flight Engineer's sation.
This panel is located to the right of the FE station.
Most of the aircraft's circuit breakers are located here.
The panel on the right with the red band on it convers
the fuel dump control panel.
Right below that is a VERY out dated trip recorder whose
function I'm really not sure about.
Update! [05/05/00]
Douglas Snow informs me that:
"Dated trip recorder on the F/E AUX Panel - to mark a
particular flight on the FDR tape, and to show where the data for that
flight starts at on the tape"
Skipping one panel below that is the APU panel.
The FE uses this panel to control the APU (Auxillary Power Unit) and is
needed to start the engines if there is no ground based power available
to the airplane.
Right below that is the flap indicator. This graphically
shows the state of the leading and trailing edge wing flaps.
This is the instructor panel in the 727 CPT. From
here, the instructor can set up various "situations" for the flight crew
to deal with. It also allows the instructor to configure the CPT
for use.
One thing to note about this CPT is that there are NO
computers connected to it at all. Behind the CPT there are a number
of 19" racks containing banks of relays and synchro transmitters (for most
of the instruments) that control the behavior of the CPT. It's pretty
neat to listen to when the flight crew is dealing with an emergency of
some kind.
This is a wiring bundle on the CPT. It's located
behind the FE position.
You might think this is a total rat's nest of wiring
since each and every wire is the same color, but each wire has a number
on it. These numbers are recorded on the maintenance schematics for
the CPT and it makes it very easy to find out what wire goes where just
by looking it up in a master index.
I hope you've enjoyed this little tour of the 727 Cockpit
Procedures Trainer. If you have any questions or corrections, please
don't hesitate to email me at geneb@simpits.org!
Gene Buckle
May 4th, 2000