Air Force One Trouble

If W flies on a C172 then it is indeed Executive One.

The VC-25's are 747-200 models with 747-400 engines. The cockpit is a tightly held secret (i.e. glass or traditional gauges). I'd suspect traditional gauges.
 
Probably so. Would have a better chance of surviving an EMP I guess.
 
I saw a clip on some show of the cockpit of AF1 and the attitude indicator is glass and there is a 757/767 like navigation glass panel below it. All of the other instruments were round-dial style. Maybe the VSI is glass too, I didn't see the little things.
 
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So, if the President wants to take flight lessons in a 172, what would the callsign be??

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If he flew at my local FBO I imagine it would be: "Plant City Airport Services" One, but more realistically probably just N12345 or whatever it happened to be.
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I remember a USAirways, Delta, AA airplane got the taxiway wrong a while ago, and ended up in the mud. But the saddest story was a BA 747, the weather was terrible, raining hard, low low vis, high winds, etc. pure hell - he landed the airplane and got the corner wrong and ended up being stuck in the mudd. These things happen - knowing where your wheels are compared to the taxiway is no easy achievement.
 
havnt you ever seen that movie with harrison ford as president....when they rescue him they say "n12345 is now air force one"
 
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havnt you ever seen that movie with harrison ford as president....when they rescue him they say "n12345 is now air force one"

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You couldn't pay me to get in the escape pod though! I'll take sliding across a cable to another airplane any day.
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Dave
 
Dave I dont know if you ever flew the MD-11 but access to the avionics/hellhole was to the left of the Capt seat and you had to slide down facing the seat and then when halfway in twist your lower body to miss all the flight control cables. Its a good thing some of the Capt I saw never had to actually use it. The would be stuck still there today.
 
You can get to the lower compartment of the MD-88 from the cockpit!

Unpressurized of course.
 
The best A/C we have for that access is the 767. Its under the 1L doorway and even the biggest guy can get down there and if you move around down there when you need to open the outter door to get to the ground. Sometimes at the TOC we have to access the A/C.
 
Not to hijack the thread but I caught VP Cheney departing Pgh last night while at the airport watching traffic... it was quite a site actually.. about 10 minutes prior to his motorcade arriving all triffic just came to a standstill... once the motorcade arrived the beacon lights where on and they were taxing for departure and lifted off in under 5 minutes...

Now that's service !!!

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Did he curse and flip you off?
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(Just kidding people, I kid! I'm a kidder!)
 
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I think he only does Senators that really piss him off

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Why I could not be a politican. If cursing and flipping senators off is a problem.
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yeah but I'm still looking for another job. Got to keep my record clean. Ten more years and I'll get a sign and stand outside congress and curse and flip off senators.
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