Shanghi turn from yesterday

Polar742

Polar742

All the responsibility none of the authority
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At the gate in Shanghi, after we got in from Seoul

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Finally loading the Freight!!!

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The Flight Engineer's buttons and switches. These guys make that look super easy!!!

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Heading back to Seoul....

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Back at the gate....headed to the hotel

Easy day....
 
Cool pics. I heard taxing a 747 is like driving a 5 story building. Any truth to that? ;) :sarcasm:
 
SeanD said:
Cool pics. I heard taxing a 747 is like driving a 5 story building. Any truth to that? ;) :sarcasm:
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Maybe a 3 story building. I liken it to driving an Excursion down a narrow European backalley.

Unfortunately all we do are turns out of ICN, so every layover is in Seoul....:banghead:

The -400 does the circle-the-globe stuff. Should be on that this fall. :yar:
 
Polar742 said:
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The Flight Engineer's buttons and switches. These guys make that look super easy!!!

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Heading back to Seoul....
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Geez! Look at all of those super-old steam guages! Good thing I don't have to worry about that stuff when I start flying. :)
 
coa787 said:
Geez! Look at all of those super-old steam guages! Good thing I don't have to worry about that stuff when I start flying. :)
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"Super-old"? It was built in '80. It's just a spring chicken!:tease:

Just remember, it's easier to go from that to this:
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Than the other way around!!

Old airplanes don't go away, they just get sold to Cargo outfits!!!:nana2:
 
frog_flyer said:
Nice pics.


That FE panel is nuts. WTF is all that stuff?
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:laff::laff: I was thinking the same thing. Its like a combo of the overhead panel and normal panel instruments and perhaps some other doodads that they dont really use anymore. Kind of like that Carousel Of Tomorrow ride thing they had at Disneyland. ;) :sarcasm:

Really though, the 200s are one of my favs. Ide love to hit that. :)
 
"Old airplanes dont go away" What is the most airframe TT that you have ever heard of on an older freighter?
 
t-cart said:
"Old airplanes dont go away" What is the most airframe TT that you have ever heard of on an older freighter?
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I don't know if Southern still has it, but they had a 747 that set a record every time it took off. It was the highest time 747 in the world.
 
coa787 said:
Sorry, I meant "super old-looking". :)
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It IS mid-60's technology. The INSs and HSI's are updated, as is the VSI (for TCAS). We do have an early gen Apollo GPS (If you know what this is you'll date yourself. BTW, I remember when it was new), and a SANDEL TAWS display.

Oddly enough, it has Autothrottles and Autoland. Starts, Ice protection performance is all automated (the F/E is our automation :rawk:). If you can ever fly with a Professional F/E, I highly recommend it.

I know Connie, Evergreen and Southern have some Old, clapped-out -100s. I think ours has about 85,000 hrs. on it.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
...what's the largest Chinese airline in Shanghi?
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Man, I don't even know. You look to the left and right and all you see are rows and rows of Airbus and Boeings. The number of aircraft is impressive, and I spent lots of time in ORD, DFW, ATL over the years.

China Eastern looks big in there, but there are lots varietals of Chinese tails (on the planes boys, simmer down). It seems like I see new airlines everytime I go in there. The don't seem to fly very many smaller twinjets. I've seen 1 Pax MD80. A few 320s, and everything else is 321/757 or bigger.
 
Polar742 said:
It IS mid-60's technology. The INSs and HSI's are updated, as is the VSI (for TCAS). We do have an early gen Apollo GPS (If you know what this is you'll date yourself. BTW, I remember when it was new), and a SANDEL TAWS display.

Oddly enough, it has Autothrottles and Autoland. Starts, Ice protection performance is all automated (the F/E is our automation :rawk:). If you can ever fly with a Professional F/E, I highly recommend it.

I know Connie, Evergreen and Southern have some Old, clapped-out -100s. I think ours has about 85,000 hrs. on it.
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What about the FMC/CDU? It doesn't look like something you'd expect to see on more modern aircraft.
 
coa787 said:
What about the FMC/CDU? It doesn't look like something you'd expect to see on more modern aircraft.
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We don't have one (or more of those). We have the INS. A Litton, it is the latest and greatest (yeah right) box on the classic.

Just cause it was built later doesn't mean the technology was certified into the plane.

Ol' Connie is putting some glass in his classic 747s.
 
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