Originally Posted by
Jetjok
MM,
I thought one of the reasons to convert the DC's to MD's was because of a lack of available instrumentation for these old beasts (I can't believe I came up with that saying
). Certainly that situation could not have gotten better since the start of the conversion process. But I'd bet that we'll fly them until they can't pass the MEL/CDL/Phase Inspection process any longer.
JJ,
Let's see here ... FedEx has stripped all the old instrumentation out of approximately 70 DC-10's in the past few years. In as much as we only have a few DC-10's still in that configuration (18 was the last number I heard?), I'm betting we have enough old instrumentation for the lifetime of our DC-10's and, for that matter, maybe enough for all the DC-10's in the world that are still flying?