So talking to one of the mechanics, it's interesting the part that Delta played in the Denzel movie. If he heard his story right, they did send cameras over to the training center to film the screens (I'm guessing 737?) and it was our pilots who tried to match what they were looking for. It was a guy at the TOC they used to make the close ups on the annunciator panel. What I don't understand is whether they used a retired airplane sliced up for the cockpit scenes. Something about the control column wouldn't move and Denzel threatened to walk off the set since he was struggling to move it around. One of the mechanics figured out what the hang up was and hacked a line somewhere to free up the column and they were back in business filming. I guess Denzel costs $500K a day. Director was very happy with the particular mechanic.

However, of the mechanics did have the guts to ask about the Director's Cast Away movie. He wanted to know, hey, when that airplane hit the water why did Tom Hanks go backwards instead of forwards, wouldn't the inertia sent him forward? Evidently, that was not appreciated.

All second hand, but at least I got an answer on my problematic MD90 from the other day from the dudes tasked to fix it. They're not real big fans of the 90.

Once again... damn you...