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Old 4th Jan 2007, 03:12
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misd-agin
 
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The A300 is a nice flying a/c. The accident made us aware of how sensitive the rudder is.

My comments using numbers (1-100) is just a subjective opinion to perhaps expand the understanding of what increased speed has on rudder inputs and is not based on engineering data.

To fly, or not fly, the A300 for my personally has nothing to do with the accident. My experience is that Boeing products(757/767/777) are more reliable than the A300 but if my schedule was better on the A300 I'd fly it.

I believe the AAMP program developer was on the 757/767 when the program was developed. Numerous profiles were flown, by qualified pilots in the different a/c AA flew, so the AAMP wasn't developed using the S-80 as the baseline.
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