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Old 05-16-2011 | 02:26 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by satchip
I'll throw a bone to airbus. The one thing airbus does better than Boeing is the toilet seats go past the vertical. You have to put in three degrees of left rudder trim in to get the 737 seat to stay up.
... actually it's right rudder. (top rudder as the AF guys say) Need to establish a left slip. Takes about 2,500 off the max altitude calculated by the FMC.

If you hear the autopilot kick off on the Captain, get stowed in a hurry. Those anti - reverse flow flapper valve things can not be trusted.