NovemberEcho
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So when you transition from FO with the side stick on the right, to CA with sidestick on the left, is it weird?
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learhawkerbe400
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Not at all. Same thing with a yoke, you still have to switch hands when you switch seats.
Screaming_Emu
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Not if you have really flexible shoulders
learhawkerbe400
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Touche
NovemberEcho
Dergs favorite member
I'm impressed. I can't even work my computers mouse properly with my left hand.
Lawman
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No see the ergonomics really hit the nail on the head there.
I just dont want to spend 6-7 hours at a time with one arm reaching forward like that.
Nark
Macho Superpilot
These jabroni's fly maybe, maaayyybe 5 minutes of a 7 hour flight. Not like us zipper suited sun gods who actually fly dynamically the entire flight.
PS. How do you think she feels...
AAPalmTree
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That's kind of a cavalier attitude don't you think?
wheelsup
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Not really; it does a much better job flying itself.
Nark
Macho Superpilot
Most of the time. We wrote up the autoland, because it slammed itself on, and veered right during the rollout.
Lawman
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bucksmith
Did you lock the doors?
I thought every time you touch the stick, you're merely interrupting the autopilot??
Nope! Yoke to sidestick takes about 30 seconds of acclamation. Right to left seat doesn't even phase you.
Imagine sitting comfortable in your lounge chair with your arms on the armrest and having full control of an airliner while watching sports on TV. And if you want, there's a foot rest so it's damned near like a Lazy Boy recliner.
SeanD
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That might be the best description on what its like to fly an Airbus I have ever heard.
This is shooting a CAT-III approach to autoland, or a visual approach to massively gusty crosswinds… just photoshop a control stick in the hand appropriate to the seat:
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
The crew of AF447 agreed with that sentiment. And Asiana 214.
In the short 10 yrs of 121 flying, the guys who have scared me were the the AP on at 200 feet going up and then AP off at 200 feet going down crowd.
The worst offending thing of course being their being so fixated on the FCP to do everything, even things that have to be done now but can't because they're dicking around with the FCP and got a wrong mode engaged which in trying to fix, puts them behind on another item which needs be done now. As that guy says, the MCP (FCP) doesn't understand the command NOW.
There's one guy in particular on gusty crosswinds who swears by the autopilot and will literally keep it on til the limitation of 80 feet AGL before clicking it off. It's ugly.
Soul Brotha'
Off to go do Black guy stuff
What he said. Sit back and monitor. When people claim they need to feel what the plane is doing in a crosswind I say "which way is the nose pointed? There's the crosswind." When people claim they need to know what the thrust levers are doing I say, "look at your engine gauges." Easy.
I've had plenty of times the throttles moved but the engines said LOL. It's just a intention and not a result.
Man, I am full-on Francophile now, this is hilarious!
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Man, I am full-on Francophile now, this is hilarious!
Help me de-Embraer @jtrain609.
thevideographer
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Debatable