Displays

Up-front display

The small display above the right MPD. Warnings, cautions and advisories at a glance, with the radios, total fuel and the clock.

PLTCPG

Each crew station has its own UFD. It works on battery power alone, so it is the first display to come on at start-up and the last to go off.

         |FWD FUEL LO  |ATT HOLD
         |             |TW LOCK SEL
         |             |
         |             |
         |             |
..VH 139.500* GLBL-      L1 149.500
.>UH 240.500* SIDE- C3   L2 249.500
..F1  39.075  -CMD- C5 H T1  45.500
..F2  49.500  GROUP C2   L3  69.525
3700    XP 1200 B NORM   14:32:07 L

Warnings, cautions and advisories

The top five lines have three columns: warnings on the left, cautions in the middle and advisories on the right, in their short form. The WCA page lists every message with its full text and what it means.

When a new warning or caution appears, one of your MPDs switches to the ENG page so you can see what is wrong: the left one, or the right one if the left is showing FLT. Nothing switches if either MPD already shows ENG.

Radios

The next four lines are the radios, VH, UH, F1 and F2.

Without ACRE, they stand for Arma’s chat channels: VH is Global, UH Side, F1 Command and F2 Group. The arrow marks the channel you are on. The frequencies are for show.
With ACRE, they show the aircraft’s own racked radios: each radio’s frequency, preset channel and label, and which of your push-to-talk keys transmits on it.

Bottom line

Total fuel in pounds on the left, internal and external together. The transponder text in the middle is for show. On the right is the clock, in local time.