Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
I’d bet a bottle of high end liquor that we will be the launch customer or at least one of the first customers for the B797. That airplane has our name written all over it considering our anticipated route structure in the middle of the next decade.
It's gonna have to be the same type rating... kinda like 757/767, except the roller shades will be taken off, the printers will be installed in only a few select aircraft. The overhead will have to remain the same as the NG/MAX (i.e. like the -300), and the cabin temperature control will have to still remain firmly under cockpit's control with no possibility to pass it to the cabin.
Then once we take possession of this bird, we'll do a DL course for the differences which will tell us we're still gonna be setting speed before selecting VNAV at 3000 AGL, setting zeros, etc. And upon completion of the said DL, our base coordinators will have our new ATP's with B-797 added to it ready to be picked up before our next flight.
Easy-peasy!
