Anton Du Flasheart:
Monitoring the approach of coffin corner is exactly the same on an Airbus as a Boeing - responsibility for ensuring it's avoidance is the same flight deck responsibility ( and often predicted by the same manufacturer of FMS ) and skill. And...I'd certainly prefer to be in an Airbus if I had to cope with consequences - degraded law on not
When I watch the daily Lufthansa A340 lift off from DFW and stagger into the air for its journey to FRA as it looks to be passing maybe 2,000 AGL 15 miles north of DFW, I note that 777's/767's/757's are all accelerating at 10,000 feet or so in the same spot when loaded for their max range flights. Yes, would be grand (not) to have all that excess A340 thrust. At least tho, like a B727, the A340 is very fast hundreds of miles later at cruise alt.
