NWA service to Ellsworth AFB?

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Ohhh, that's a smooth, quiet ride! If Boeing could figure out how to do that, they'd never have a problem in the world!!!
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You just got added to the "list" mtsu-av8er....
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Matthew
 
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Ohhh, that's a smooth, quiet ride! If Boeing could figure out how to do that, they'd never have a problem in the world!!!
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You just got added to the "list" mtsu-av8er....
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I figured you wouldn't like that one....
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I'm a Boeing fan, but I have to admit the A320 is smooth and quiet. I must add that I rode on a DAL 737-800 from ATL-PHX and it was a nice airplane. Delta gets my vote because I got to watch a movie on my flight to AZ.

On a crappy note, I rode on an NWA DC-9 from DTW-BUF. I sat in the very last row where the seats don't recline and if you open your shade you see the engine mounts. MAN was it loud back there. I almost needed my David Clarks. Good thing it was only a 30 minute flight!
 
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On a crappy note, I rode on an NWA DC-9 from DTW-BUF. I sat in the very last row where the seats don't recline and if you open your shade you see the engine mounts. MAN was it loud back there. I almost needed my David Clarks. Good thing it was only a 30 minute flight!

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Eh, it's not so bad back there. After take off you get lulled to sleep by the rhythmic vibrations of the engine
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I'm a Boeing fan, but I have to admit the A320 is smooth and quiet.


Yes...yes smooth quiet and under powered in direct comparison to the Boeing 757.

But having said that (gasp) I do like the A320 series.

There very spacious and I love that two people can walk down the center isle freely without having one person have to move to the side to allow the other to pass.

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You don't have to try and convince me about the 757, that's my dream bird!

And as far as the DC-9 was concerned, don't they make prop syncs for those things or something?
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I felt like I was with a student on their first flight in the Seneca.
 
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...but on the topic...

It happens a little more than the mass media realizes.

For some pilots, calling the 'visual' is a sort of macho thing. Personally, I'm a big scardey cat and won't accept a visual until I'm willing to bet my career that it's the correct airport, it matches the Nav display and I'm 105% sure.

Flying into I think it was GSO or TYS or someplace like that, the captain exclaims, "Tell'em I've got the airport".

I take a peek and say, "Well, that's a different airport".

"Naw, it's the airport"

"That's XYZ field, same runway config right there on your approach chart".

Luckily before I had to have a 'moment', approach calls and says, "airport 12 o'clock 25 miles, off your 11 o'clock and 8 miles is 'blankity blank field'"

Silence.

But hey, that's why we have two pilots in the cockpit!

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I'm amazed this was an Airbus. When I first heard it I would have bet a hundred bucks it was a DC-9. How do you land a glass cockpit airplane at the wrong airport?
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BTW, your story definitely sounds like GSP. Very "target rich environment" over there.

Dave
 
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