Trainer Too 2: Possibly LH crews prefer to eat Spaetzle (Butter und Salz drauf) mit Schnitzel on an Airbus 'tray', instead of on a metal logbook balanced upon their knees?
Goede Middag A-Floor: interesting points, especially about the cost of developing fly-by-wire.
I believe that the new Embraer jet also has it.
But is it worth the extra development costs, or does Boeing need to 'ape' the trend which was developed by Airbus? I can not find a funny face which looks like a chimpanzee.....
Does fly-by-wire affect the insurance costs of such planes? If not, then that might also say something about conventional controls. Most transport jets still need hydraulic boost-maybe a manual reversion back-up (cables to large control tabs?) might encourage pilots who are requested/blackmailed into flying civilian freight into Iraq (i.e. DHL...).
