I cant believe there are people that actually care what they fly (sidestick, yoke, who cares). You guys should spend more time on important things such as QoL and $$$

Look the whole reason I called Fatty out on the laptop comment was to avoid this stupid argument. I said it has zero to do with whether a FBW airplane should have a yoke or sidestick, he admitted it was in bad taste, and now it's over. Please, be done with it.

Post the Boeing payback rumor and let's discuss how interesting it is!

Why argue about this stuff? We need a disgruntled United guy to overfly the field, do a barrel roll on final and land on the taxiway.............at the wrong airport! That'd give em something to talk about.

He needs to be drunk as well. High wouldn't hurt either.

Uh...mine was pure sarcasm - guess I should have made that more clear with a :rolleyes: or :confused: or maybe even a ;).

The side stick offers an unimpeded view of the instruments. With roughly 2,000 hours in each, I prefer the side stick. I'd gladly fly the left handed version when seniority allows.

With a naked 15 yr old girl (or boy) in the jumpseat. :-0

Yeah sorry I was just trying to get a point across. :D

I prefer a side stick also. However in the Airbus application it works in what is essentially a control stick steering mode. I do not like that type of operation. That is one reason why Airbus pilots tend to bump the stick to make attitude changes. Fly by wire can be set up to work many ways and duplicate almost any type of handling. The airbus setup is simply not my favorite side stick or normal.