![]() ![]() Some airplanes have a bathroom inside the cockpit for this reason the 747 is often called the ensuite fleet. Some planes have windows that open, a blessed feature when you’re dining in the cockpit between flights and wish to feel the breeze on your face, especially if you have flown from somewhere cold to somewhere warm and have only three-quarters of an hour until you must fly home to winter. Airbus cockpits are beloved for their foldout tables, an enormous enhancement to the pilot’s quality of life when completing paperwork or a meal I also found the cup holders and sun visors were more intuitively located on the Airbus. Other differences between aircraft are so small in the context of such Earth-crossing, mile-vanquishing vessels that it feels ungrateful to dwell on them. Before moving the flaps, he turned to me, with a clearing of the throat and a smile-from over the glasses resting halfway down his nose-that said, What are these youngsters coming to? Once, soon after I switched from Airbus to Boeing, flying with a senior captain, I mistakenly asked him to select flaps zero. On the 747, the same position is called flaps up. On the Airbus, the fully stowed position of the flaps is called flaps zero. There is a friendly rivalry between the pilots of Boeing and Airbus aircraft, which in addition to everything else are two competing realms of language. In a phenomenon called type reversion, a pilot inadvertently refers to a term or procedure from a previous aircraft type. Acquiring these words and their correct usage is a significant part of the work we put into a new type rating. ![]() Indeed each aircraft type or family has its language, or at least its own dialect, and analogous devices and procedures often have different names on different aircraft. The bond between a pilot and his or her current type of airplane is hard to pin down. ![]()
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