Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 4933 times:
Hi all-
I was reading a Honeywell study about their FANS systems, and it mentioned the MD-11 and MD-10 as compatible Boeing aircraft. It also excluded the DC-10.
Can someone tell me what happens to a DC-10 when it gets converted to an MD-10?
XFSUgimpLB41X From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3952 posts, RR: 36 Reply 1, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4900 times:
Basically... take a 3 crew airplane with normal dial instruments.. and make it into a modern 2 crew plane with FMS's, full glass cockpit with PFD, ND, and EICAS and alot more automation- i believe the flight guidance system is basically teh same as the MD-11's too.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 2, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4889 times:
Hmm. Cool.
Are DC-10s really so valuable they needed all this extra attention?
744lover From Brazil, joined Nov 2000, 164 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4712 times:
Hi Gigneil,
I'm sure this conversion is very expensive, *but* when you weight all benefits you'll have with it, it's perfectly payable!
- One man less on the cockpit (one income less at the end of the month)
- Less maint. (Glass cockpit's are much more easy to work than old "steam gauged" ones)
- More automation = less crew work = more time for the crew "watch" the aircraft do its job = more safety
- great integration with the MD-11 (I ever heard that a same crew is able to fly the MD-10 and MD-11 - same type rating)
So, if you have a big DC-10 fleet (like FDX), it's perfectly payable. Needless to say too that's cheaper than buy a MD-11!!!!
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 4, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 4668 times:
I read a few articles about the great integration with the MD-11, actually, and there are a lot of people very concerned by it.
Apparently the MD-11's handling characteristics are so drastically different from the MD-10s that many people consider it a safety risk. Much having to do with handling characteristics at landing.
They say it'd be safe for an MD-11 pilot to fly an MD-10, but that flying an MD-10 hardly prepares one for flying an MD-11 and that it
a) either should be a different rating or
b) airlines with both should keep the pilot pools separate.
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