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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–19 Edition) 

§ 25.1322 

be plainly visible to the appropriate 
crewmembers. 

(d) Instrument panel vibration may 

not damage or impair the accuracy of 
any instrument. 

(e) If a visual indicator is provided to 

indicate malfunction of an instrument, 
it must be effective under all probable 
cockpit lighting conditions. 

[Amdt. 25–23, 35 FR 5679, Apr. 8, 1970, as 
amended by Amdt. 25–41, 42 FR 36970, July 18, 
1977] 

§ 25.1322

Flightcrew alerting. 

(a) Flightcrew alerts must: 
(1) Provide the flightcrew with the 

information needed to: 

(i) Identify non-normal operation or 

airplane system conditions, and 

(ii) Determine the appropriate ac-

tions, if any. 

(2) Be readily and easily detectable 

and intelligible by the flightcrew under 
all foreseeable operating conditions, 
including conditions where multiple 
alerts are provided. 

(3) Be removed when the alerting 

condition no longer exists. 

(b) Alerts must conform to the fol-

lowing prioritization hierarchy based 
on the urgency of flightcrew awareness 
and response. 

(1) Warning: For conditions that re-

quire immediate flightcrew awareness 
and immediate flightcrew response. 

(2) Caution: For conditions that re-

quire immediate flightcrew awareness 
and subsequent flightcrew response. 

(3) Advisory: For conditions that re-

quire flightcrew awareness and may re-
quire subsequent flightcrew response. 

(c) Warning and caution alerts must: 
(1) Be prioritized within each cat-

egory, when necessary. 

(2) Provide timely attention-getting 

cues through at least two different 
senses by a combination of aural, vis-
ual, or tactile indications. 

(3) Permit each occurrence of the at-

tention-getting cues required by para-
graph (c)(2) of this section to be ac-
knowledged and suppressed, unless 
they are required to be continuous. 

(d) The alert function must be de-

signed to minimize the effects of false 
and nuisance alerts. In particular, it 
must be designed to: 

(1) Prevent the presentation of an 

alert that is inappropriate or unneces-
sary. 

(2) Provide a means to suppress an 

attention-getting component of an 
alert caused by a failure of the alerting 
function that interferes with the 
flightcrew’s ability to safely operate 
the airplane. This means must not be 
readily available to the flightcrew so 
that it could be operated inadvertently 
or by habitual reflexive action. When 
an alert is suppressed, there must be a 
clear and unmistakable annunciation 
to the flightcrew that the alert has 
been suppressed. 

(e) Visual alert indications must: 
(1) Conform to the following color 

convention: 

(i) Red for warning alert indications. 
(ii) Amber or yellow for caution alert 

indications. 

(iii) Any color except red or green for 

advisory alert indications. 

(2) Use visual coding techniques, to-

gether with other alerting function ele-
ments on the flight deck, to distin-
guish between warning, caution, and 
advisory alert indications, if they are 
presented on monochromatic displays 
that are not capable of conforming to 
the color convention in paragraph (e)(1) 
of this section. 

(f) Use of the colors red, amber, and 

yellow on the flight deck for functions 
other than flightcrew alerting must be 
limited and must not adversely affect 
flightcrew alerting. 

[Amdt. 25–131, 75 FR 67209, Nov. 2, 2010] 

§ 25.1323

Airspeed indicating system. 

For each airspeed indicating system, 

the following apply: 

(a) Each airspeed indicating instru-

ment must be approved and must be 
calibrated to indicate true airspeed (at 
sea level with a standard atmosphere) 
with a minimum practicable instru-
ment calibration error when the cor-
responding pitot and static pressures 
are applied. 

(b) Each system must be calibrated 

to determine the system error (that is, 
the relation between IAS and CAS) in 
flight and during the accelerated take-
off ground run. The ground run calibra-
tion must be determined— 

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