Definition
A flight director display style that presents pitch and roll guidance as two separate command bars — one horizontal bar for pitch and one vertical bar for roll — which the pilot follows independently by aligning the aircraft symbol with each bar.
Plain English
A flight director that shows two separate guidance bars on the attitude indicator: one tells you whether to pitch up or down, the other tells you whether to bank left or right. You fly the airplane until both bars line up with the center.
Context Anchor
Seen on some flight director displays when the system is giving the pilot guidance to follow a selected course, altitude, climb, descent, or approach path.
Derivation
From 'dual' (two) and 'cue' (a signal that prompts an action). Two separate visual cues — one for each axis of control — hence 'dual-cue.' This contrasts with the 'single-cue' display, which combines both into one V-shaped bar.
Why Pilots Care
Gives the pilot clearer, independent information on pitch and roll corrections, which can reduce workload and improve precision when hand-flying with flight director guidance or monitoring the autopilot.
Intuition Check
Dual-cue does not mean two pilots are being instructed or that the autopilot has two modes. It means the flight director shows two separate visual cues: one for pitch and one for roll.
Example Sentence 1
On the dual-cue flight director, the pilot pitched down slightly to center the horizontal bar, then banked right to capture the vertical bar.
Example Sentence 2
In dual-cue configuration the horizontal bar directed nose attitude while the vertical pointer showed the required bank correction.