You just brought back some good memories. Thanks OM. :)

I was jumpseating (on UAL or DAL, can't remember) and the FE tied a string to the silence lever. He never even had to look, he just knew when the thrust was going to idle and give the string a tug.

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One for the engineers. Many thanks to all who worked so damn hard while I didn't.

And as an aside, I have a buddy who is a Captain on the Guppy. He told me of a recent hire who won't bid the 757 because he can't fly steam gauges. We both laughed. The 757 is a steam gauge?!

Flap 15 Improved out of Denver on a 90-degree day. Dive bombing into NYC at night on the STAR. ONE DME, no green arc, no PROG page, no VNAV. ****ty AP, tuning a new VOR every 3 minutes....etc. What was it, the Milford, or something?? Now that was flying!

I'd bid it again in a heartbeat.

That sounds like a hell of a lot of fun!

I always wanted to fly the 747/757/727 in that order......only got the 757 and loved every minute of it. Just like you said I’d bid the 727 in a heartbeat if it was still around.

Hardest part about the panel (for me) was keeping the cabin temp at a point that didn’t generate multiple calls from the back.... also trying not to gain weight from the food cart that was often brought up to the front.

You'd probably get violated in a heartbeat too[emoji846]

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Check essential!

‘Essential power, max power, gear up, flaps up, download, dump, standby rudder!’


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Like ole’ home week. Boy do I feel at ease.

I heard the engineers song used once ...

Essiential power
Galley power
Cargo heat and packs
Busses powered
Check the loads
Do not exceed the max

From the Captains stand point the 727 was a really high tech airplane .... as almost all systems were voice activated.