Check out the business end of the Air France 777F
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Somebody needs to tell them that the captain's seat is going to be in the way of the yoke. Friggin morons!!

 

Cool, FO's get a tiller! Or is that just for driving on the left side of the road in Europe?

 

I was kinda hoping the crew rest area looked like this...

Boeing: Multimedia - Image Gallery - 777

If not that than this...

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777...est_pilot.html

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777..._location.html

 

Too bad those crew rest modules will never make it to a US airline. US FA's are to disgustingly fat and frail to climb up the ladder! Thank god for Cargo!

 

An Air France 777F was parked next to us in Hong Kong, so the Capt and I walked over to say hello. The crew was very cool, and let us have a good look around. I thought the cockpit was very nice, with nice big windows, and a little elbow room, like a 767. Those of us on the whale aren't used to that nice of a view or roomy of a cockpit.

The area in back of the cockpit with the seating area and galley was spacious enough, and looked exactly like the pictures posted here. However the crew rest area (bunks) didn't look like anything posted here. I would call it a broom closet located behind the Capt, with one bunk on top of the other. In other words, not much room. It reminded me a little of the MD-11 bunk area where you would have to almost crawl up into your bunk.

Our bunk areas in the 747-400 freighter are much nicer. Individual bunk quarters with room to stand up and move around, along with a small closet to hang your uniform.

Overall, it was a beautiful aircraft, and still had that "new car" smell.

 

Yeah, now that would be nice. Of course, we don't stand a snowballs chance of getting a set up like that. We'll be lucky to get new futons to put on the floor, and that is only if there is a sale at Wal-Mart when they are looking to buy.

 

Boeings compromise for the French demand for sidesticks.

Reference the F/O tiller, that's a euro thing, at a former life we had some ex-European operated (don't remember the original operator) B757's that came with F/O tillers. I don't think the f/o ever got to taxi though.

 

DAL's ERs have it. Got ride up there going to Europe one time. Nice and quiet, seat had the fold out TV.

 

Not much faith in Boeing, huh?

Do you think maybe the seat moves a little sideways when you slide it back?