Could I ask some of you Boeing and Airbus drivers something about a comment made previously in this thread criticizing the Tu-204's "Russianess" in that it's a "poorly" layed out cockpit with clunky nobs etc.
Is this really so? The cockpit looks like a nice place to be and doesn't look very cluttered to me. I am not an airline pilot (yet) so I can't judge the ergonomics of it all but I am curious to know the answer to this question.
Well, I read those comments as well, and as I never had even heard of a Tu 204 before this crash I had already seen the cockpit fotographs while researching.
And I have to say, just as you, seems pretty organized, a well structured station. I have seen a few concepts in my life, and this doesn't turn me away like the pic of a 742, wher new developed screens (like TCAS) have been stuffed to whereever there was room to hold one.
Looks ok to me, even if somebody else might think the switches are "cluncky", they are still switches.