Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
Just flew a trip with a guy that insisted on flying the 757 like its a 727...and that Delta's procedures should have been frozen in time the day he got hired. Him..."Do you mind if we do it the way we used to do it?" Me..."I don't know what that means."
Wow, I didn't know we had any of those guys left!
It was a real problem when we first got the 767/757's. All the Captains were coming off the 727 and didn't trust the magic at all, or only having....TWO engines!
The Horror!!
I checked out on it in Jan. of 1989 as F/O, and nearly every Capt. I flew with would say, "You run the box, I'm just going to fly it like the Seven Two!" and they'd have you run the APU on takeoff and landing, "...just in case we lose a generator, we've only got two on this thing!"
When we F/O's were in recurrent, and the Capt. was asked to set up a holding pattern in the FMS, the IP's would usually touch us on the shoulder and say..."Don't help him, he has to learn to do this himself."
It was many years before some of them got comfortable with the box. The 727 was fun, but the 757 is by far the easiest airplane I've ever hand flown, even at 410. Try that in a Lear 23 sometime, let me know how long it takes you to make yourself airsick!
