HORIZONTAL SITUATION INDICATOR CONTROL PANEL

HSI CONTROL PANEL

The HSI control panel, located on the pilot instrument panel, has three rotary switches that control what system data will be presented on the HSI and RMI.

CONTROL / INDICATOR FUNCTION
1. BRG PTR 1  switch [M] DPLR Doppler bearing information is presented on HSI bearing pointer number 1.
ADF ADF bearing information is presented on HSI bearing pointer number 1.
VOR VOR bearing information is presented on HSI bearing pointer number 1 and VOR bearing is presented on gunner RMI bearing pointer number 2.
2. BRG PTR 2  switch ADF ADF bearing information is presented on HSI bearing pointer number 2 and ADF bearing is presented on gunner RMI  ADF bearing pointer number 1.
VOR VOR bearing information is presented on HSI bearing pointer number 2 and VOR bearing information is presented on gunner RMI  bearing pointer number 2.
3. COURSE  switch VOR Presents selected VOR / LOC station displacement signal information to the HSI course deviation bar and glideslope deviation pointer and VOR / LOC signal information is also presented to the ADI course bar.
FM HOME Presents FM homing course and glideslope deviation displacement information to both the ADI and HSI pointers.
[ M ]  DPLR Presents selected doppler coordinates course deviation to the HSI course deviation bar, doppler signal validity information to the navigation flag of HSI, and displays range to selected destination in range window of HSI.

 

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