Originally Posted by
RemoveB4flght
You may already know this trick but I’ll throw it out there for the new hires.
The four FCU knobs from left to right are in the same order as the airspeed, heading, altitude, and vertical speed on the PFD (or right to left if you prefer to think that way) which is why you don’t need to look at the knob to find to correct one.
Works in both seats.
Which is industry standard except for Embraer
on their PFD it is airspeed, heading, altitude, vertical speed like the rest of the industry
but on their non-industry standard FCU it's heading, airspeed/vertical speed, altitude
so Embraer guys to tend to grab the wrong knob when things get involved/busy.... that law of primacy thing.
But to be fair, I did the same thing when I went from non-Embarer to Embarer - grabbed the wrong knobs on the Embraer.