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Old 08-12-2015 | 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Lobaeux
In a 737, it had a glass cockpit, but holy cow that airplane looked like it was over 40 years old! It was so loud! His hands were flying all over the cockpit flipping switches, dialing buttons, looking at charts, and he was the PF!! Paper kept spitting out of the printer, he was constantly pulling the throttles back as they moved around and he was working that yoke on the approach. I turn the wheel of my car a lot less when I'm on the racetrack.

Aah, the good old times in the Boeing. I can still feel the muscle memory with moving that yoke all the way down the ILS; kind of miss it.