MIL-STD-203
This document calls for the consistent operation and
uniform actuation for all control in cockpit Forward, Upward or Clockwise Operation should increase the performance Conversely, Backward, Downward or Anticlockwise operation should decrease the performance Where switches mounted on panels having slopes within 30 deg must be flipped upwards to work, Whereas the switches having slope greater than 30 deg from vertical must be flipped forward to enable a function
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the operator, whenever possible, and never more than 45 deg from the line of sight when looking straight ahead.
Displays and controls for like functions should be
grouped and should encourage viewing and operation from left to right ,top to bottom, or back to front
FAR 25.1303
Federal aviation regulation dictate certain dictate
25.1303 Flight and Navigation instruments requires each pilot station to be equipped with an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, a rate of climb indicator, a gyroscopic rate of-turn indicator and pitch indicator
must include a free air temperature indicator ,a clock, and a magnetic compass direction indicator 6
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FAR 25.1321 instruments: Installation, Arrangement and visibility prescribes the arrangement of the most important of these instruments in to familiar T.Paragraph.
The instrument that most effectively indicates the attitude must be on the panel in the top center position The instrument that most effectively indicates airspeed must be adjacent to and directly left of the instrument in the top center position
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The instrument that most effectively indicates altitude must be adjacent to and directly right of the instrument in the top center position The instrument that most effectively indicates the direction of the flight must be adjacent to and directly below the instrument in the top center position
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