Nothing wrong with the 787. I had the "privilege" to fly in one as a passenger with PornStar from Sydney- Honolulu. I have picked the emergency exit seat since I am a tad over 6 feet so I can stretch my legs. Mind you the flight was during the night so it was extremely smooth and I can't sleep unless I am in the cockpit.:E...I thought it was a comfortable aircraft to be passenging. If you were into peeking outside the 40% larger windows were a plus...:ok:

Windows were great !

Apparentely take off and climb was de rated ref a lot ref previous posts here.

Ride however when it hit turbulance was like a cork bouncing in choppy water. The 777 seemed to push through turbulance - a lot better.

To me the 777 feels a lot more solid and sturdy BUT USES A LOT MORE FUEL.

Two words: Confirmation bias.

WW,
In my opinion, it is no better and no worse than a B767/200-300 at high level, which is what you would expect given the similar wing loadings.
Tootle pip!!

1.4GW? I think there might be a few extra zeroes in there somewhere :ok:

Same a applies for departures on 20 as well. You're sometimes kept below 6000 ft due to inbound traffic from the west and north west overflying a lot higher as they get radar vectored to the east of WSSS for the approach to 20.

717tech,

An elctro-hyd pump is under rows 40-42 in the J* config. Just in front of Door 3L.

We know this because we just did a long sector. However, the pump is only associated [normal ops] with gear/flap selection and appears to be continuous with gear down. It is BLOODY loud!!

Otherwise, as pax, it's breeze.

G'day ;)

Feather #3

The hydraulic pump noise you can hear is the Centre Demand Pump, it operates when,
System PX is low
on the ground for the first 3 min after the second engine is started, or
from takeoff thrust set until 2000' is exceeded,
flaps or slats in motion, or
during descent from when the gear lever is down and RA is less than 2000' until gs is less than 60kts.

There are 2 electric motor driven pumps to provide centre hydraulic pressure, they alternate between being primary pump and demand pump. Depending on the sector you may not hear the same hydraulic noises.

Thanks Sleeve!

That also explains why it wasn't prominent on an earlier sector [last year.]

G'day ;)