User Guide

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CHIEFTAIN COCKPIT TOUR
By now, you should be pretty familiar with the way aircraft
cockpits are laid out. Sure enough, there are the usual “sacred six”
flight instruments right in front of the captain (with an additional
set over on the copilot side). The dual-width radio stack, replete
with bells and whistles, is in the center panel. Above them, the
engine instruments are laid out with, from left to right, manifold
pressure, RPM, EGT and fuel flow, corresponding to the positions
of the paired black throttles, blue prop controls, and red mixture
controls on the center console. Each instrument has two needles,
color coded for the corresponding engine.
It’s below and above the instrument panel that things get per-
ceptibly busier than in a single. Just aft of the engine-control levers
is the control panel for the autopilot and flight director. There are
no less than three trim wheels, each with its own indicator: the big
elevator trim, on the left side of the console; the equally large rud-
der trim wheel, which will become vital in single-engine work, sit-
ting horizontally; and a somewhat smaller knurled knob for aileron
trim. Below these are a pair of switches and indicators to control the
cowl flaps, one for each engine. These are adjustable flaps on the
bottom of each cowling which can be adjusted to control the rate
of cooling airflow through the cowling. Close them too tight, and
you can overheat an engine; leave them open too far, and you’ll be
causing needless drag. In particular, in a single-engine situation,
you’ll want to close the ones for the failed engine all the way to min-
imize drag - and, depending on how much power you need from
the good engine, you may have to crack its cowl flaps a bit.
Finally, at the bottom of the console, a bunch of techy-look-
ing levers control the fuel system. Each wing has inboard and out-
board tanks. In normal operation, each engine draws fuel from the
tank(s) on its side of the airplane; the outboard ones are considered
auxiliary tanks, and are approved for use in level flight only. The
two rearmost levers are the fuel selectors for their respective
engines, and have inboard, outboard, and OFF positions.
Flight Instruction
Flight Instruction
Navajo Cockpit
Clock
ADF
CDI/NAV
Turn Coordinator
Airspeed
Attitude Indicator
HSI
Radar Alt
Vertical Speed
EGT
Alt Static
Manifold Pressure
Annunciator Panel
Parking Brake
Landing Gear
Master Avionics
Flap Position Indicator
ADF Panel
Transponder
Weather
Radar
ELT
Altimeter
RPM
Fuel Flow
Oil Temperature
Prop Sync
Audio Panel
Left Engine Throttle
Flap Lever
Volts
Clock
Fuel Pressure
GPS Panel
NAVCOMM1
NAVCOMM2
Right Engine Throttle Left Prop Right Prop Left Mixture Right Mixture
C.P. Vertical
Speed Indicator
C.P. Altimeter
C.P. Attitude Indicator
C.P. Directional Gyro C.P. CDI/NAV
C.P. Airspeed Indicator
C.P. Turn Coordinator
Oil Pressure
*C.P. = Co-Pilot’s Side
Suction