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Old 27th Dec 2002, 07:36
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wallabie
 
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I agree with Rabbit

I spent years flying the 727 and the 747/400 before converting to the 320.
I was very in the " If it's not Boeing I'm not going " philosophy. Very wrong of me.
The aircraft is a piece of cake to fly and I wonder how I could spent so many years with that control column wondering how on earth I could strech my legs.
I'm not too found of their FMC however, I found the Boeing one much more user friendly but they're being upgraded.
This aircraft offers a lot more safety in windshear and ground collision avoidance. All you have to do is yank the stick backward, the throttle foward and the aircraft takes care of the rest in a much better way than I would ever be able to.
You'll find it very nice to use on short turn around, unlike the 737 the flightdeck offers a lot of room and that's important and buying the new generation the noise problems are sorted out.
You'll definitly enjoy it.
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