MD-80 Cockpit

Just got done watching the video.

Agree with everything he said entirely. It's quirky, old school, durable and reliable.

Super quiet too. The other guy can hear your thoughts.
 
It really impressed me the quietness of that flight deck.

Once, I was jumpseating in a MD80 and the moment the airplane pitched up at take off and unstuck I thought both engines failed!
 
People poo-poo the mad dog, but it's a solid airplane.

We didn't have a PERF button on the -88 and -90, plus we have updated engine instrumentation with a dual head FMS.

I wished he had talked a little about the weird noises it makes like "UNNNNGH" like an old Atari. Then it barks "Stabilizer MOTION!" occasionally.
 
Derg said:
Just got done watching the video.

Agree with everything he said entirely. It's quirky, old school, durable and reliable.

Super quiet too. The other guy can hear your thoughts.
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Thanks a bunch for checking it out! I had heard of the "Dial-a-Flap" and the quirky whiskey compass mirrors, but all the rest of that was new to me. I'm amazed by how much of the original DC-3 cockpit the Douglas engineers nostalgically snuck into the DC-9... which carried over into the MD.

And I can't believe AA still uses mechanical checklists... :aghast:
 
The mirrors were hilarious, but technically speaking, I haven't looked at the whiskey compass in the 757/767 more than once in the last how ever many years I've been flying it.

The dial-a-flap is handy. The standard detents are

FLAPS/SLATS UP
SLATS EXT(end)
Flaps 11

Crap, nevermind, I system dumped all that crap. But we'd leave the dial-a-flap at 23 so in a steep descent, and that thing could get down fast and dirty if you needed it to, it would drop like a cheerleader's prom dress.
 
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