Question for Boeing pilots
07-08-2011, 12:44 PM
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Question for Boeing pilots
I'm doing a little project on getting feedback from pilots that fly Boeing products.
Is there anything about a Boeing airplane that you've always wanted to know?
If you could change 3 things on Boeing airplanes, what would they be?
What's the best thing about Boeing airplanes in your view?
Thanks for the help!
Is there anything about a Boeing airplane that you've always wanted to know?
If you could change 3 things on Boeing airplanes, what would they be?
What's the best thing about Boeing airplanes in your view?
Thanks for the help!
07-08-2011, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by flyeryder
I'm doing a little project on getting feedback from pilots that fly Boeing products.
1. Is there anything about a Boeing airplane that you've always wanted to know?
2. If you could change 3 things on Boeing airplanes, what would they be?
3. What's the best thing about Boeing airplanes in your view?
Thanks for the help!
1. Is there anything about a Boeing airplane that you've always wanted to know?
2. If you could change 3 things on Boeing airplanes, what would they be?
3. What's the best thing about Boeing airplanes in your view?
Thanks for the help!
2. Flight attendants (I prefer the younger, Coca-Cola bottle shaped ones), cockpit organization (something to be learned from those losers at Airbus), and some serious tint in the eyebrow windows (that way you can still look up but not get all the blinding light).
3. Cables. If everything goes to hell, we can still muscle her back to Earth.
Disclaimer: Not yet a Boeing pilot, but I've spent enough time on Boeing jumpseats to know a thing or two.
07-08-2011, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by flyeryder
Is there anything about a Boeing airplane that you've always wanted to know?
Originally Posted by flyeryder
If you could change 3 things on Boeing airplanes, what would they be?
2. Add groundspeed mini.
3. Give the 737 the extra inch of width per passenger that the Bus has.
Originally Posted by flyeryder
What's the best thing about Boeing airplanes in your view?
), an AOA would have helped out in several incidents.
07-09-2011, 06:16 AM
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I wish Boeing airplanes had dial-a-flaps, so that there would be more settings for takeoff.
I wish Boeing would install a valve that would allow outside air to be pumped into the cabin, so that when it is cold outside, and the inside of the airplane is hot, you could just pump the cool air into the airplane without running the APU.
I wish Boeing would install a valve that would allow outside air to be pumped into the cabin, so that when it is cold outside, and the inside of the airplane is hot, you could just pump the cool air into the airplane without running the APU.
07-10-2011, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by FAULTPUSH
Why didn't they get more pilot input in the design phase?
1. Get rid of the yoke.
2. Add groundspeed mini.
3. Give the 737 the extra inch of width per passenger that the Bus has.
Flying without computers between you and the flight control surfaces. And a trim wheel that you actually use. Boy I miss that.
1. Get rid of the yoke.
2. Add groundspeed mini.
3. Give the 737 the extra inch of width per passenger that the Bus has.
Flying without computers between you and the flight control surfaces. And a trim wheel that you actually use. Boy I miss that.
Your two statements seem at odds. If Boeing were to dump the yoke, how would you propose cables, etc, on a sidestick?
07-11-2011, 07:07 AM
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The 737-900ER versions cannot dump fuel and cannot legally, without exercising emergency authority, cannot be landed at MTOW. So I wish we could have change that,
we got Max landingW: 71,350 and MTOW 78,017
we got Max landingW: 71,350 and MTOW 78,017
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