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747-200 Question  
User currently offlineAC_A340 From Canada, joined Sep 1999, 2251 posts, RR: 2
Posted (13 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 789 times:

Is there such a thing as a 747-200 with a glass cockpit?

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User currently offlineLH423 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 6501 posts, RR: 56
Reply 1, posted (13 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 706 times:

No, but KLM is installing EFIS cockpits into their 747-300's that fall just short of 'glass', but nevertheless are a vast improvement to the 'regular' 743 cockpit.

LH423


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User currently offlineIainhol From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (13 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 694 times:

The Prs. plane might have some glass.
Iain

User currently offlineAC_A340 From Canada, joined Sep 1999, 2251 posts, RR: 2
Reply 3, posted (13 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 671 times:

The reason I asked was because in the movie Turbulence, the plane with the madman aboard appears to have a glass cockpit. The ATC said it was a 747-200 and the needed to find another 747-200 pilot. They got a guy from Tower Air whose cockpit also appeared to be glass. His name was Capt. Boeing.

User currently offlineJumboTim From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (13 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 667 times:

That film had me in fits of laughter - particularly when the Jumbo was flying upside down and the autopilot kept switching itself on and off with voice commands to boot! I guess artistic licence allows the filmmakers to harmonise the various forms of 747 - they did the same in Executive Decision - 747-200 on the outside, but cockpit of a 400 - guess it makes the film more exciting! Nothing however beats Karen Black taking control of a good ol' classic 100 in Airport '75. Remember the tongue????!!!

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