Originally Posted by
RyanP
I'm taller than that. Height is a non issue in the cockpit. I have flown the 145, CRJ, and 175.
The seats and pedals adjust.. complete non issue once seated on any of them. 145 is the easiest to get in and out of since the seat slides sideways and back, CRJ second easiest, and 175 is a pain to get into the seat. The stupid yoke is back into the seat which doesn't slide back far enough so you have to push the yoke forward forward while crawling in. It is an inconvenience for literally about 10-20 seconds total of your day. Who cares really. Personally, I'd like to take a screwdriver and take out the seat adjustment limiter block they rigged in there so it would let the seat come back further like it is designed to do but maintenance would likely flip out. So I just deal with it. Once in the seat it's fine.
Now in the back? All of them are uncomfortable as hell for a tall person, the 145 is miserable. Mainline is nearly just as bad though with the new AA 737 being the worst of all time.
The mainline 737 is a pain? I guess I was spoiled, my one experience on the new config (that is if the new config in 2012 is the same as now) I got dished out 7C, bulkhead! Stretched my legs so easily into the wide F aisle. Shame that the beautiful new Boeing sky cabin was for the quick MIA-TPA hop after a kinda dreadful 763 MAD-MIA that looked like it hadn't been upgraded in the back ever; still original bins and slthe seats very well could have been from the 80s. Only one FA would even talk to the pax who spoke Spanish at all during the flight (including myself and many others travelling with me, I was returning from a class immersion trip in Spain and I was still en moda Espanol,) the others refused and outright ignored us. And they were based in MIA, one of the largest Spanish speaking communities in the US? From MAD, the capital of Spain?
Eh enough about cruddy FAs, every airline has some.
Was it the seat panning forwards that was the problem? I was excitiled to try that out, I knew Cathay had similar seats, and I'm a massive Cathay fangirl, but having no seat in front of me kinda didn't give me the proper experience.
As for the CFI program, perhaps I'll contact Envoy directly. Response may be a bit biased but since I'm heavily leaning towards it I'll want to know as much as I can about it.
Also sorry if I'm droning on a bit about off-topic stuff, if it's inappropriate, just tell me to shut up and get back on topic.