On Jun 1, 6:11*pm, Dean wrote:
American stopped the practice
when Boeing told them they wouldn't build those funky altimeters(mucho
twisting up and down each takeoff and landing) for the B777.

That's interesting since the same company designed and built the
display systems for both the MD-11 and the 777 and that company knew
how to make a QFE altimeter work very well on a PFD. Hardly any
twisting at all required for the MD-11. Maybe it was the old NIH
syndrome, DAC vs Boeing.

Andy