787 Fbw ?
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From: NORWAY
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I seriously doubt that Boeing will opt for the side stick as it is an Airbus "thing". Its a lot of prestige going on in the business and to mount a side stick in a Boeing cockpit would be a too big loss of prestige. By doing it Boeing would admit an Airbus design is better.... Maybe a center stick like the Globemaster? 
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From: Greater Aldergrove
Boeing have already announced that the flight deck controls will be provided by the same suppliers that provide the 777 equipment. I think in the same release they explicitly said it would be a yoke.
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From: Gosport
I attended a presentation a couple of weeks ago given by the 787 (then 7E7) Project Pilot. The flightdeck will definitely have yokes and the control laws will be based on the 777. In fact the flightdeck will be similar (but not indentical) to the 777, such that Boeing expect to be able to offer a CCQ on the 777 and 787.
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From: Australia
Phoenix_X,
What's a missed chance?
I'll be happy to go back to a yoke some day, sidestick just doesn't do it for me, particularly in bad turbulance.
I will miss the table all the same.
Oh maybe that was what you were talking about.
What's a missed chance?
I'll be happy to go back to a yoke some day, sidestick just doesn't do it for me, particularly in bad turbulance.
I will miss the table all the same.
Oh maybe that was what you were talking about.
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From: Land of the midnight sun
I have heard that the B-787 will keep the youke as whell. I really hope they do as the side stick is an Airbus trademark! And I must agree that in bad Turb I'll take the yoke any day.
Cheers,
Cheers,
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From: Planet Earth
FBW
Why not have the best of both philosophies?
Use a sidestick but with Boeing control laws from the 777, including fully backdriven sticks and autothrottles with soft limits.
Don't think you could improve on that!
Use a sidestick but with Boeing control laws from the 777, including fully backdriven sticks and autothrottles with soft limits.
Don't think you could improve on that!
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From: north
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From: Europe
Why canīt Boeing just have a stick? Side or middle. Throughout aviation all ( at least most) aerobatic and fighter planes have had sticks. I canīt see any reason for the wheel. The stick provides more precision and is, when gotten used to, much more convenient in all ways. Most early planes had stick, and I think the progress into wheel on today's aircraft is an evolution in the wrong direction.
Iīll stick to that
Iīll stick to that
