cockpit instruments
Pilot's dashboard readouts
Cockpit instruments are the gauges, displays, and controls in an aircraft that show pilots essential flight information—altitude, airspeed, heading, engine status, fuel levels.
Modern cockpits have largely replaced analog dials with digital screens, but the term persists.
The cockpit instruments showed we were descending too fast.
- glass cockpitDigital aircraft instrument panel
- fuel gaugeMeasures remaining vehicle energy
- attitude indicatorInstrument showing aircraft orientation
- artificial horizonFlight orientation display
- altimeterInstrument measuring elevation
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Pilot's aircraft steering system
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