Jeffry747 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 961 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1626 times:
I have always liked the cockpit of the MD-11 for its large, easy to read CRT displays, uncluttered layout, and huge cockpit windows.
ReidYYZ From Kyrgyzstan, joined Sep 2005, 536 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1602 times:
My favorite would have to be the Tristar, with the A330 a close second, but the worst is the linen closet sized A310. You have to step out to change your mind.
ThomasCook757 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 162 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1594 times:
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12708 posts, RR: 80 Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1586 times:
For me, I'm afraid glass cockpits are all much the same, on closer examination of course this is not the case, but I've not had much to do with glass cockpit aircraft.
My favourite, where I spent much of the 7 years I did on the fleet, isn't the most spacious but it's unique and interesting, with many systems not found on any airliner, a fascinating place;
Concorde;
Of course, on this type, you had changes in the config of the 'windows' to put it in layman's terms, (the nose/visor operation).
I spent some time on this fleet at BA many moons ago, an outstanding first generation widebody cockpit, very spacious, not for nothing was it known by some at BA as the 'Gentleman's Office'.
L1011 Tristar;
Never directly involved with this type, more's the pity, but when you visit an example in a museum, the spaciousness and well designed cockpit (considering the age of design) is striking, another aspect to the wonderful VC-10;
I suppose this bias to 'clockwork' cockpits is from my time in BA Concorde engineering, we often had visitors and there was plenty to point out in the flightdeck, mixing in facts, stories, anecdotes related to the various systems.
Sometimes the visitors would want to see a widebody, if a B747-436 or 777, you were stuffed at what to say, "this blank screen, when powered up, displays......"
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