Originally Posted by
FastDEW
Hi, I have a question that I have been thinking about for a while now. It seems that whenever I am on an A320 the wing seems to go clean (flaps/slats in) very quickly on take off and also seems to stay clean until just before landing. I notice the 737 seems to clean up much later on climb than the A320 and also seems to extend much sooner on slowing for landing that the 320 does.
Is this my imagination or is there something to this? Why does the 320 wing seem to get clean so much faster than the 737 and stay clean so much later?
Thanks!
I have never flown the 737, but I have sat up front quite a few times. I can tell you that they seem to configure on much the same schedule as we do in the bus. The one difference that I have noticed in riding in the back is this....the 737 flap system seems to make A LOT more noise than the bus. If you arent staring right at the flaps on the bus you wont even know they are moving. Combine that with the fact that the first "flap" setting on the bus is flap 1, but it actually only moves the slats to 18 degrees( I think
), whereas the 737's first flap setting will actually move the flaps and cause a bit of noise and pitch change. The bus does have an extremely effective wing....I have trouble slowing it down all the time. Not sure how it compares to the 73 though.