On the wall of the old simulator building at Cranebank there used to be two blue metal discs. One, level with the third floor windows, was a 747 pilot's eye height during taxiing. The other, way up under the eaves, was the same pilot's eye height at main gear touch-down.
Fortunately for me, I was only shown them after I'd been flying it for a couple of years, as far from being confidence building, I found it rather put me off.
I echo the view that the (earlier) 747s were somehow reminiscent of the F27, I don't know why, as they couldn't be more different, but somehow they had the same "feel", a pussycat with lion's teeth, as one instructor described it.
Last edited by split system breaker; 15th Oct 2017 at 13:08.
Reason: Typo