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VSI indicator on Flight Engineer panel incorrect Printed From: Just Flight Forum Category: Just Flight Products Forum Name: DC-8 Jetliner Series 10 through 70 Forum Description: Discussion area for the Just Flight DC-8 URL: http://forum.justflight.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22547 Printed Date: 28 Apr 2024 at 5:35pm Topic: VSI indicator on Flight Engineer panel incorrect Posted By: TurnNburn79 Subject: VSI indicator on Flight Engineer panel incorrect Date Posted: 29 Sep 2014 at 2:33am Does anyone else have the issue where the VSI on the flight engineer's panel always reads twice the rate of the VSI on the main panel? What the... Am I missing something here? Am I missing a procedure in pre-flight? Is there something that could cause a false reading that I am ignorant of? Lemme know guys, thanks. Replies: Posted By: jdetrick Date Posted: 03 Oct 2014 at 11:57am That VSI on the engineers panel is the cabin Rate of Climb.  In other words how much the cabin altitude is going up or down.  Try closing the outflow valve.  Or just ignore it.  It is after all just a simulation.

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