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Are you saying the 747-400 is a different animal than the 75/76. How so ? Not to be sarcastic, but I believe the original poster was comparing the MD 11 / MD 10 differences to those of the 757 vs. 767 or comparing the two MD aircraft to differences among the variants of the 747 Classic vs -400.

Another poster went on to say there is a difference in handling of the 727-100 "Stubbie" vs. the 727-200 "Stretch" and then concluded that the MD 10 and MD 11 were different in handling also.


Back to the LSAS issue, works good lasts a long time. In my short time at UPS, I've found the MD11 is a good hand flown airplane. It is very similar in my opinion to the 767-300. The exception, there is less roll oscillations (my poor pilot technique, I'd bet) in the MD11 than there are in the 767.

What I have observed is that the MD11 is usually hand flown to 3000 to 5000' on climbout, then hand flown again at 1000' HAT so LSAS is not really used often.

Quirky airplane ? Yep, IMHO stemming from the small tail and high approach speeds, a moving foot during banked turns, a tendency to pitch up on landing if autobrakes aren't used, autothrottles going to idle just prior to the flare, and an FMC system that uses FROM - TO logic vs. TO logic...which is frustrating for us Boeing types.

FF