Boeing's big bet

[Midnight Flyer]

And it STILL has a yoke.

Are you suggesting having a yoke is outdated?

Real airplanes have yokes, Microsoft Flight Simulator has a joystick.

 

[Andy]

Are you suggesting having a yoke is outdated?

Real airplanes have yokes, Microsoft Flight Simulator has a joystick.

Were my first three posts on the subject too obtuse for you? Yes, a yoke is outdated.

I don't play Microsoft Flight Simulator but it also has a yoke. http://tinyurl.com/3saje6r

 

[Midnight Flyer]

Were my first three posts on the subject too obtuse for you? Yes, a yoke is outdated.

I don't play Microsoft Flight Simulator but it also has a yoke. http://tinyurl.com/3saje6r

Yokes are not outdated; real planes have yokes.
Keep on riding around in your Airbus. Pretty soon airbus will design a pilotless cockpit and guess what, you'll be forced to use a yoke again when you transition back to a Boeing.

 

[Andy]

Yokes are not outdated; real planes have yokes.
Keep on riding around in your Airbus. Pretty soon airbus will design a pilotless cockpit and guess what, you'll be forced to use a yoke again when you transition back to a Boeing.

Gotcha. Airbus is working on unmanned aircraft; Boeing is not working on unmanned aircraft. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/05/04/boeing.phantomray.unmanned.stealth/index.html
I'm sure there'd be no technology transfer across Boeing subdivisions.

 

[TWA Dude]

Yokes are not outdated; real planes have yokes.

... said the pilot who's never flown a FBW plane with a sidestick. And I hope you haven't offended any F16 pilots.

 

[n757st]

As said above, I have yet to meet a person who HAS FLOWN BOTH, but still chooses a yoke.

 

[8vATE]

3 engines...

Forget about how cool yokes are...


How about a something with big swept back wings, three engines, climbing and descending at .80... cruising as fast as you wanted (as loud as you could stand in the cockpit)... and a wing that turned itself in to a giant barn door.

Yea.. I'm talking 727. It had a yoke...

Would I want to go back to flying 8 hour hard time days in it? No. But it was coooool.

Now I sit around and watch the weather channel on tv and have my feet in stirrups... yiiichhh.

 

[Data]

I disagree. I wouldn't anyone, er, anything greater than 120 lbs on the tray.

Doohh!

 

[Midnight Flyer]

Forget about how cool yokes are...


How about a something with big swept back wings, three engines, climbing and descending at .80... cruising as fast as you wanted (as loud as you could stand in the cockpit)... and a wing that turned itself in to a giant barn door.

Yea.. I'm talking 727. It had a yoke...

Would I want to go back to flying 8 hour hard time days in it? No. But it was coooool.

Now I sit around and watch the weather channel on tv and have my feet in stirrups... yiiichhh.

smartest comment I've heard all day

 

[instructordude]

I wonder what the passengers of Air France 447 thought about sidesticks.

???

How the h#ll would the passengers know if it was a yoke or a sidestick if they were sitting in the back??

Idiot.