Originally Posted by Trip7

737 all day everyday and twice on Sunday if you're a Captain(HUD). 717 has nice screens buts it's still very much a DC9 with plenty of reminders why. Prime example is Deicing Events. 717 seats are terrible plus they don't have headrests. 717 pedestal is much larger than the 73 so less knee room. Non precision approaches are a pain in the 717. Uncoupled and requires FPA mode so your situational awareness needs to be on point. Preflight on first flight of the day requires outside observer to clear wings for hydraulic check. Panel outside has to be opened to check potable water and can be painful to open/close in winter. I could go on but you get the point. To top that off many legs per day and not the most desirable overnights. But on the brightside, it's a hell of alot better than CRJ200 flying at the regionals.

717 Radar is decent. 737 Radar is world class even tho it's overzealous in Auto(Scary Mode)

Originally Posted by The Localizer

For those that have flown both the 717 and 737 which would you chose if you had to make a choice ? How is the radar on the 717?

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

No headrest? How do you sleep or prevent whiplash? I guess nice thing about being captain on 717 is you don’t have to do walk arounds anymore so who cares about checking the water. Sounds like fo problems.

Originally Posted by DryClutch

Id say about 90-something percent of CA's on the 717 grab the walk when it's your leg. But yea your right, you don't have to.

Originally Posted by Trip7

737 all day everyday and twice on Sunday if you're a Captain(HUD). 717 has nice screens buts it's still very much a DC9 with plenty of reminders why. Prime example is Deicing Events. 717 seats are terrible plus they don't have headrests. 717 pedestal is much larger than the 73 so less knee room. Non precision approaches are a pain in the 717. Uncoupled and requires FPA mode so your situational awareness needs to be on point. Preflight on first flight of the day requires outside observer to clear wings for hydraulic check. Panel outside has to be opened to check potable water and can be painful to open/close in winter. I could go on but you get the point. To top that off many legs per day and not the most desirable overnights. But on the brightside, it's a hell of alot better than CRJ200 flying at the regionals.

717 Radar is decent. 737 Radar is world class even tho it's overzealous in Auto(Scary Mode)

Originally Posted by Trip7

Panel outside has to be opened to check potable water and can be painful to open/close in winter.

Originally Posted by GogglesPisano

Hands down 737. Boeing builds airplanes, Douglas builds character.

Originally Posted by notEnuf

...Airbus builds confidence.

Originally Posted by Myfingershurt

Haha. Is that what it’s doing when it calls me a retard? Only the first one is a verb, right?