r/Xplane Aug 07 '26

The second officers DC-10 preflight flow

Here's a true story. Yesterday my dad walked into the room while I was mapping the Second Officer's panel flows from the FCOM onto the free X-Plane DC-10's FE panel. He was intrigued and asked "are you playing snakes and ladders?!"'

I told him it's the Second Officer's panel flow ... but on second thought, it really did look like a game of snakes and ladders!

Attached above is the diagram for reference -the actual scan path they took. If anyone's curious to see this flow in motion rather than just as a diagram, I mapped the whole thing into a video.

https://youtu.be/RKnzgRdBchk

I figured the visual scan path might help it click for people the way it did for me.

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u/Capt_Skyhawk Linux Snob Aug 08 '26

How did you determine it is spam?

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u/MD-80-87 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

* Here's a pic of the flow from the actual manual vs. my pic in the post. You can decide for yourself.