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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 03:06:01 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   Boeing is distinctly american: It's a plane FOR pilots on the deck. Everything is deferred to the captain, he can shut stuff down and hand fly it however he pleases.

   Airbus, by all the water cooler gossip (since I'm not allowed to touch that stuff yet but I'm surrounded by retirees of both breeds) says that airbus sees the pilot as a mandated piece of equipment. It doesn't WANT you to fly the plane by hand, it wants you (in typical euro fashion) to defer to the computer and let everything be automated.

   Just look at the diff in control stations: Boeing gives you a yoke, the same as every aircraft of its class has sported since the golden years of flight. Boeing gives you a pilot's seat, while Airbus turns it into a management station. Boeing has an eye for tradition and history, and airbus simply can't wait to kick your dumb ass out of the cockpit.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/4e6dbf86-9ca4-46b5-b5c7-cf55d8ad163a