Originally Posted by
Jughead
The word on the street is that the MD95 rumor is a good one - it would be a separate category, though, due largely to the overhead panel.
Eventually, 1/3rd of the MD88/90 fleet will be MD90's.
There are also several vendors involved in a bidding war on pimping out the maddog dashboard - looks sweet - all glass ND and PFD (I mean real glass, not what is there now), standby instruments are glass, and the flat plate is gone and replaced with a big-ass screen. Good for RNP stuff.
Seems as though the MDxx series is here for the long haul.
It was explained to me they'd be a single category with the ISS configuration.
In fact I was told the FAA would sign off on a single category with the current configurations of our 88s, 90s, Saudi 90s and 717s BUT that every pilot would have to go to training every 90 days. Not feasible obviously. But they could do it.