Ok, I'll eat the crow I deserve, or how I learned to love the Bus.

Baronman said:
So you fly the TO and landing but the CA briefs it.... Talk about disconnect.
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We still have captain's brief all takeoffs, although FOs get to brief their own landings. Apparently that's going to change eventually, but it's kind of stupid. Ok, it's really stupid.

Rocketman99 said:
You're operating on the assumption folks listen/pay attention to briefings. May not be a valid assumption...
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I often just hear Charlie Brown's teacher when a captain is briefing my takeoff for me. Every once in a while I interrupt and tell them I have absolutely no plans of doing whatever it is they just briefed I would be doing during takeoff, but it seems to throw them off way more than just doing my own thing once I actually get the plane.

Derg said:
I tell people the 321 is almost more like the 330 in terms of the flying qualities, the speed of the flight computers and especially the way you don't want to just snap the throttles back to the climb detent without a healthy respect for your speed trend arrow at acceleration altitude.
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That's more because all of your 321s are new and have the updated processors than a function of 321 vs 320. A fresh off the line 320 or 319 would be equally as snappy.
 
MikeD said:
A318 is a cool looking jet. E190 class?
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I truly miss the "short bus"!

Quick turns, snappy handling, what's not to love?

I get that it made no economic sense whatsoever (but that acquisition cost, tho!), but I liked flying it, and yes, it was weird looking...
 
Welcome to the Bus, Bus training is like the BORG, you will be absorbed. Resistance is Useless!!
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You will conform to all the new operating procedures and Airbus Philosophy of operation. Activate and Confirm!

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MikeD said:
"If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going" is a dying slogan, barely surviving on life support, it would appear...
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I can honestly say I hope to never fly a 737 in my career. Too much work, not enough space. (Of course I'd do it for the right $$ )
 
Baronman said:
I can honestly say I hope to never fly a 737 in my career. Too much work, not enough space. (Of course I'd do it for the right $$ )
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I flew the -200 for about a year.

Zero interest in returning to the 737, even as a line-holding captain in LAX, nope nope noppity nope.

Too loud. Too small. And I gotta stretch after "leg day" fairly often.

Plus the poor copilot never knows who is digging through his bag back in the cabin.

"The ball is hit… it goes back! Way back! Boeing's gonna catch it and uh uh OHHHHHH, he dropped the ball"
 
Roger Roger said:
Resistance is useless*



*for R<1 ohm.
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Yes, that is correct, but as R approaches the zero limit there are all kinds of neat-O things that happen. So F of R Lim 0 .......

Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic flux fields occurring in certain materials when cooled below a characteristic critical temperature. It was discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on April 8, 1911 in Leiden. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. It is characterized by the Meissner effect, the complete ejection of magnetic field lines from the interior of the superconductor as it transitions into the superconducting state. The occurrence of the Meissner effect indicates that superconductivity cannot be understood simply as the idealization of perfect conductivity in classical physics.
 
Derg said:
I flew the -200 for about a year.

Zero interest in returning to the 737, even as a line-holding captain in LAX, nope nope noppity nope.

Too loud. Too small. And I gotta stretch after "leg day" fairly often.

Plus the poor copilot never knows who is digging through his bag back in the cabin.

"The ball is hit… it goes back! Way back! Boeing's gonna catch it and uh uh OHHHHHH, he dropped the ball"
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It's gotta be a step up from the Saab ;).
 
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I'll add the one major fault I've discovered since I started flying the bus on the line. There is a serious lack of cup holders in the 320 series cockpit.

Airbus needs to address this ASAP.
 
Zapphod Beblebrox said:
Yes, that is correct, but as R approaches the zero limit there are all kinds of neat-O things that happen. So F of R Lim 0 .......

Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic flux fields occurring in certain materials when cooled below a characteristic critical temperature. It was discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on April 8, 1911 in Leiden. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. It is characterized by the Meissner effect, the complete ejection of magnetic field lines from the interior of the superconductor as it transitions into the superconducting state. The occurrence of the Meissner effect indicates that superconductivity cannot be understood simply as the idealization of perfect conductivity in classical physics.
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Whoah nelly, I'm pretty good with electrons but from a "well we got voltage here and here but not there so let's find the broken wire/ bad pun" not this crazy shizzle.
 
nimslow said:
I'll add the one major fault I've discovered since I started flying the bus on the line. There is a serious lack of cup holders in the 320 series cockpit.

Airbus needs to address this ASAP.
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You should see where they are on the whale. It appears they have chosen frequency of spills over severity. That and the galley design on the -8 freighter are probably the only two bad things I have to say about the plane.

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