Boeing or Airbus? Stick or Yoke? Coke or Pepsi?

[Pilotforhire587]

BOEING YOKE AND COKE! Until I get into my t6, then I will need a stick

 

[CaptBill]

Boeing and Coke for sure. I admit that I have never flown an Airbus so my response is not subjective at all. Recent events make it more likely that I will have the chance to make a more balanced comparison some day.

 

[Orange Anchor]

I really wish the 787 would have been designed with a side-stick.

Besides the control column makes my skirt ride up during rotation. It's quite embarrassing.

Kilts, yes. Skirts, no.

Thought about culots?

 

[Pépé le Pilot]

Boo rams horn yokes!!! After the non hydraulically boosted elevator, the rams horn was the worst design decision on that jet.

I know some guys love it, but I can't stand it.

Ram horns worked well on the Concorde though... The pilots seemed to like it.

 

[JordanD]

Bring back steering wheels.

 

[Springer]

Airbus, Stick but would rather have a yoke in a gusty X-wind, Coke.

 

[Roger, Roger]

Boeing (they look better), Stick (center stick, like a Citabria), and Cherry Coke please.

 

[BeRich]

Boeing (they look better), Stick (center stick, like a Citabria), and Cherry Coke please.

:yeahthat::yeahthat:

Except for the cherry coke part....vanilla coke FTW!!

 

[lostplanetairman]

At the end of the day, the schedule and paycheck rules. What the company flies is not about which we have any control. In the end the table rules! FiFi! has treated me well over the past 5 years.

 

[Turbine]

Boeing, Yoke, Coke

 

[scramjet]

At the end of the day, the schedule and paycheck rules. What the company flies is not about which we have any control. In the end the table rules! FiFi! has treated me well over the past 5 years.

Are you the guy who writes Flightlevel 390? I've never heard Fifi used anywhere else before, but then again I'm not an airline pilot.

 

[spbrian]

Iced tea please.. Who cares, fly what gives the most time off.

 

[MikeD]

RC Cola, hands down.

Everything else is unimportant.

 

[BeRich]

Are you the guy who writes Flightlevel 390? I've never heard Fifi used anywhere else before, but then again I'm not an airline pilot.

Love that blog!

Does anyone know why it's called Fifi?

 

[BobDDuck]

Are you the guy who writes Flightlevel 390? I've never heard Fifi used anywhere else before, but then again I'm not an airline pilot.

I'm pretty certain Dave is a Cactus Pilot. He's a great writer.

Karlene Pettit just wrote a great piece on why the Airbii are called FiFi.

http://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-is-airbus-called-fifi.html

 

[Pépé le Pilot]

That's a great blog, I love it !

 

[granlistillo]

Lockheed and mello yeller.

 

[dasleben]

I'm pretty certain Dave is a Cactus Pilot. He's a great writer.

Karlene Pettit just wrote a great piece on why the Airbii are called FiFi.

http://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-is-airbus-called-fifi.html

Hah, I know the first commenter on that post personally. She'd always jumpseat on my flights to visit her boyfriend. Small world.

 

[ChasenSFO]

Pepsi means Mt. Dew, so I'll take Pepsi! You know, other than NW, the only airline I ever flew on that had Mt. Dew was Frontier. Last time I flew on them, I saw they still served Pepsi, however they dropped the Dew. They do serve Amp, which is pretty much the product of Redbull and Mt. Dew hooking up and having a crack baby. For $3, its fun to down one in 10 seconds then enthusiastically watch a sports game in a middle seat with DirectTV. Not so much for your seatmates.

 

[Hacker15e]

Karlene Pettit just wrote a great piece on why the Airbii are called FiFi.

http://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-is-airbus-called-fifi.html

The B-29 was named FiFi because of the man, Vic Agather, who was responsible for obtaining it for the CAF in the 1970s. His wife's name was FiFi, and he named that particular B-29, N529B, after her.

The blog makes it sound like FiFi was the nickname for all B-29s....

The blog also neglects to mention "Fifinella", the mascot of the WASPs.

So, to keep this on topic...Boeing, definitely.