Originally Posted by tomgoodman
That's what a lot of asked when we started flying the MD-88. The good news was that you could shut off the new stuff and still have a DC-9 underneath
Got a couple thousand + hours in the Navy C-9, which is actually a DC-9-32. .LOVED it. . call me a Luddite <G> . .but I actually got to fly and get Typed in the DC-6/7 too (Navy C-118) and enjoyed the heck out of that too.
When we got our fleet of brand new 727-200F freighters (we got the last ‘27’ built) I was not happy that they came equipped with ‘auto throttles’ <G> . . . the mechs figured out they were too expensive to maintain . .so we disconnected them. . felt better about that. Just an old fashioned guy who liked to feel ‘in charge’ . .<g>
It’s NOT an issue of not understanding computers, I got my first computer in ‘79, when you had to load the OS off a 5” floppy on start-up . and am very computer literate . .I just think the damn engineers are cutting the actual pilots out of the equation and allowing ‘skill’ to atrophy.