Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
guages" as I am?

Or is it only me...?

I'm tireder of "yank and bank."

Trying to think of an alternative - round gauges, analog gauges, round
holed panel, etc. Steam gauge is pretty sexy. Sexier than MFD, PFD,
LED, although HUD is at least pronounceable.

Of course acronyms are easier to spell correctly..

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> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
> guages" as I am?
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> Or is it only me...?
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>

Maule Driver ) wrote:

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> Trying to think of an alternative - round gauges, analog gauges, round
> holed panel, etc. Steam gauge is pretty sexy. Sexier than MFD, PFD,
> LED, although HUD is at least pronounceable.

"Steam gauges" is easier to use and more quickly understood in a
conversation, IMO.

--
Peter

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> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
> guages" as I am?
>
> Or is it only me...?

How about "conventional guages"

Howard


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> "Steam guages" strikes me as one of those yuppie-type expressions that
> you must use to avoid ostracism by the "in" crowd.

not in any usage I've heard. Folk I know use it do indicate old dumb
gauges as opposed to the new glass stuff...

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Y'All,
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> wrote in message
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> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
> guages" as I am?
>
> Or is it only me...?
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They are properly called "electro-mechanical" gauges.

Karl

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> Now there you go.
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> "Old dumb guages". Much better. Much less pretentious.
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> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:00:32 -0500, Bob Noel
> > wrote:
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>>In article >,

>>wrote:
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>>> "Steam guages" strikes me as one of those yuppie-type expressions that
>>> you must use to avoid ostracism by the "in" crowd.
>>
>>not in any usage I've heard. Folk I know use it do indicate old dumb
>>gauges as opposed to the new glass stuff...
>

"Dan Luke" > wrote in message
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> I'm tireder of "yank and bank."
>
I'm tirederer of "dive and drive".

> wrote in message
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>
> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
> guages" as I am?
>
> Or is it only me...?
>

Well the usage is certainly changing. Hundreds of days ago in the pre-G1000
era, the phrase "steam gauges" was used only to describe panels that were
laid out by loading all the instruments into a shotgun and firing it at the
panel. Now people are using it to describe any panel where the six basic
instruments don't require an alternator to operate. "Round gauges" strikes
me as more ontologically precise. Inaccurate usage gets my pedantic goat
much faster than egregious cutesiness.

-cwk.

> wrote in message
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>
> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
> guages" as I am?
>
> Or is it only me...?

Nope, you are not the only one.

Some folks that work with this stuff all the time call them "round dial"
aircraft, as they call the earlier glass/LNAV without GPS aircraft "legacy LNAV."

Bob Noel wrote:

> In article >,
> wrote:
>
> > "Steam guages" strikes me as one of those yuppie-type expressions that
> > you must use to avoid ostracism by the "in" crowd.
>
> not in any usage I've heard. Folk I know use it do indicate old dumb
> gauges as opposed to the new glass stuff...
>
> --
> Bob Noel
> looking for a sig the lawyers will like

> Well the usage is certainly changing. Hundreds of days ago in the pre-G1000
> era, the phrase "steam gauges" was used only to describe panels that were
> laid out by loading all the instruments into a shotgun and firing it at the
> panel. Now people are using it to describe any panel where the six basic
> instruments don't require an alternator to operate. "Round gauges" strikes
> me as more ontologically precise. Inaccurate usage gets my pedantic goat
> much faster than egregious cutesiness.
>
> -cwk.

Some of were flying glass flight decks when folks just legal to drink booze
today weren't yet born. (The 767 entered service in 1983.)

I hadn't been, but this posting of yours pushed me over the edge.

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> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
> guages" as I am?
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> Or is it only me...?
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Me too.

"Steam Gauges".... just saying it makes the day better.

Dave B levins

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:12:02 -0600, Paul Folbrecht
> wrote:

>I hadn't been, but this posting of yours pushed me over the edge.
>
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>> Is anyone else growing as weary of the cutesy aviation term "steam
>> guages" as I am?
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>> Or is it only me...?
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