Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The F/E panel on a Boeing 727.

So what exactly does a Flight Engineer do? The systems on today's airliners are highly automated. The systems on earlier aircraft required a great deal of manual operation. The Engineer handles the engines (duh), fuel, electrics, hydraulics and pneumatics. They keep the lights on, the fuel flowing and the heat blowing.

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