Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
737? I immediately recognized it as an AirBus cockpit and when the aural alert sounded, "Mon Dieu!" my suspicions were further aroused. The real clincher for me was when parts started flying off the thing ... yep, AirBus.
Besides, with those trim tabs that merely suggest which way the MD88 might roll if you turned the yoke upside down in one direction or the other, there is no way that thing would roll. If someone tried it would take the rest of the movie to get it over the top. Everyone knows the only way to roll a Douglas product is to hold at the FMC recommended holding speed, at which point the airplane enters an uncoordinated stall towards the inside of the turn, does a half snap roll to a nose down recovery, or if your unfortunate, an inverted flat spin.
It must be reoverable ... no MD88 sized holes in the dirt around SINCA or Rome, Georgia.
NEWK told me to never use the yoke. Rudder pedals, power, flap handle & trim. The rest really has no effect on the flight path of the jet.
Bar;
I am probably one of the few pilots at this company that has not had the Douglas "club" initiation. However, your descriptions of how the -88 flies make me laugh every time.
I have jumpsat/seated on many of them and have always been amazed at the Houdini getting out of a straightjacket contortions that the FOs have to do. fuggeddabout the -9.
My current flows are pretty much check the O2, look at everything else and generally don't touch anything.