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Old 08-02-2012 | 06:50 AM
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Opening the aft air stairs from inside should be something trained in the real airplane on the ramp.
What fun would that be for the Boeing pilots? Place would be boring without hearing the adventures of those intrepid, brave, Douglas Line Test Pilots. I'm hopeful as we approach the 40th anniversary of the type we can get the bugs worked out in a couple of more years.
Old 08-02-2012 | 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
What fun would that be for the Boeing pilots? Place would be boring without hearing the adventures of those intrepid, brave, Douglas Line Test Pilots. I'm hopeful as we approach the 40th anniversary of the type we can get the bugs worked out in a couple of more years.
No, what fun would that be for mechanics putting all the slides and tail cones back together.
Old 08-02-2012 | 06:57 AM
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Oh this movie is going to be a gold mind.

Truly, truly, a Douglas pilot:

Give hollywood credit, he may be wearing his hat and glasses inside the hotel, but man his bag is spot on...

The angry butt kicking pilot at the door... with his hat on...:


Yeah, obviously the FO is flying...
Old 08-02-2012 | 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
737? I immediately recognized it as an AirBus cockpit and when the aural alert sounded, "Mon Dieu!" my suspicions were further aroused. The real clincher for me was when parts started flying off the thing ... yep, AirBus.

Besides, with those trim tabs that merely suggest which way the MD88 might roll if you turned the yoke upside down in one direction or the other, there is no way that thing would roll. If someone tried it would take the rest of the movie to get it over the top. Everyone knows the only way to roll a Douglas product is to hold at the FMC recommended holding speed, at which point the airplane enters an uncoordinated stall towards the inside of the turn, does a half snap roll to a nose down recovery, or if your unfortunate, an inverted flat spin.

It must be reoverable ... no MD88 sized holes in the dirt around SINCA or Rome, Georgia.

NEWK told me to never use the yoke. Rudder pedals, power, flap handle & trim. The rest really has no effect on the flight path of the jet.

Bar;
I am probably one of the few pilots at this company that has not had the Douglas "club" initiation. However, your descriptions of how the -88 flies make me laugh every time.

I have jumpsat/seated on many of them and have always been amazed at the Houdini getting out of a straightjacket contortions that the FOs have to do. fuggeddabout the -9.

My current flows are pretty much check the O2, look at everything else and generally don't touch anything.
Old 08-02-2012 | 07:00 AM
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Ugh. This movie is going to use too much CGI. Look, a Captain doing the walk around:


Newk


How Bar views every MD-80:
Old 08-02-2012 | 07:05 AM
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I am sure we can use this somewhere:


You know, I feel the same joy when I fly a Douglas, that's not CGI right there...


Oh wait, there is some. I notice they CGI'd the backup instrument vibrator circuit breaker IN.

When Bar is MD'd to the MD-88, this is how they're going to inform him that he's got training...


You're ****ed man. (green smile)
Old 08-02-2012 | 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by DogWhisperer
Great pic.... I wish it would have been me though.. A few extra days stuck in RTB wouldn't bother this FO.. The carpet dance would be worth it.
Old 08-02-2012 | 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by shiznit
Great pic.... I wish it would have been me though.. A few extra days stuck in RTB wouldn't bother this FO.. The carpet dance would be worth it.
Shiz;

I dove roatan when there were 9 grass huts on the island - total. Undiscovered in the early 80s.
Old 08-02-2012 | 07:10 AM
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Old 08-02-2012 | 07:13 AM
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