Originally Posted by
biigD
Hell, I apparently can't identify the damned panel properly! But I'm curious, what's the *real* reason (vs. the book reason)?
The old Douglas instructor at the "factory school" asked us the reason, received the "standard" answer, and then said:
"Well, that's what we put in the book, but the fact is that we had a lot of those switches left over from the DC-8 program, so we had to come up with some function for that third switch position on the DC-9 series."
