View Poll Results: Boeing or Airbus?
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Boeing vs. Airbus
09-08-2009, 01:59 AM
#2
Gets Weekends Off
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Well, I fly Boeings and prefer them overall. However, having jumpseated on many Airbuses I must say I love how quiet and pilot friendly they seem to be. Ideally, I'd like a Boeing aircraft that's as quiet as an Airbus and that has a joystick so I can read my paper, I mean the must-read-bulletins without that big stick between my legs getting in a way... Hey, don't be jealous now... 
09-08-2009, 06:56 AM
#6
Gets Weekends Off
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To be fair, our (big brown) 75s are much louder than most pax 75s. Sometimes I feel like taking my David Clark headset out of it's retirement...
Voted B btw.
09-08-2009, 09:53 AM
#9
No one's home
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Not that one way is better but they are different. What I found was with the non-moving throttles, I spent more time actually looking at eng instruments.
09-08-2009, 01:20 PM
#10
With The Resistance
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In general, the propensity to mow down trees during demo flights, loss of vertical stab, total or multiple partial loss of rudder surface in flight, and recent loss of and near loss of aircraft due to possible pitot static problems come to mind. There is that French thing too.
I'm sure they build a fine product and Boeing does too. Just the observations of a non 'Bus driver.
They are both products of a global economy, it is just that I prefer the benefits of such an arrangement accrue primarily to my country, chauvanist that I am, not to say that other countries are not just as wonderful and full of well-meaning people.
Still betting the 380 will cut them down in the long term.
I'm sure they build a fine product and Boeing does too. Just the observations of a non 'Bus driver.
They are both products of a global economy, it is just that I prefer the benefits of such an arrangement accrue primarily to my country, chauvanist that I am, not to say that other countries are not just as wonderful and full of well-meaning people.
Still betting the 380 will cut them down in the long term.
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