Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:54 am
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I flew a BOAC 747 as a teenager.
Well, the simulator actually, by the time we got to Shannon for base training I was 20.
I could go on about what it was like as a Hamble graduate with 220 hours to transition from the Baron, at 2,300Kgs and 570hp to the 747-136 at 330,000Kg and the equivalent of 75,000shp, but it says everything about the aircraft that it was, as my Training Captain said, a 'Piece of P#ss'...
As for winglets, on the last airliner I flew, the MD11, both winglets were required, probably because it was aerodynamicillay at its limit anyway. One of the small 'under winglets' could be missing but even for that there were performance penalties.
Well, the simulator actually, by the time we got to Shannon for base training I was 20.
I could go on about what it was like as a Hamble graduate with 220 hours to transition from the Baron, at 2,300Kgs and 570hp to the 747-136 at 330,000Kg and the equivalent of 75,000shp, but it says everything about the aircraft that it was, as my Training Captain said, a 'Piece of P#ss'...
As for winglets, on the last airliner I flew, the MD11, both winglets were required, probably because it was aerodynamicillay at its limit anyway. One of the small 'under winglets' could be missing but even for that there were performance penalties.
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