Reply #1: At least Airbus doesn't say it's unsinkable. [View All]

[gulfcoastliberal]

This thing is a Titanic of the skies. 800 passengers?! Logistical nightmare for loading & offloading. I remember that PSA tried using L1011s (Lockheed Tri-Star) for regional flying thinking that the economy of scale (# of passengers per flight) made big economic sense - until they found out how long the loading/unloading process made it not efficient at all. A very short lived experiment for that tragic airline. The one that had the smile on the nosecone. Didn't Valujet also have a smile? Beware of smiling airplanes.

As for wake turbulence? Commercial pilots should know how to handle it. Crossover speed flying & training (if plane actually flips due to wake turbulence, hit max throttles and flip it back up if at the safe airspeed for "crossover" - hopefully everyone has their seatbelt on). This became a big issue when that Boeing 737 rudder flaw caused those two nosedives killing everyone on board. NTSA flew 737s right behind wake vortices at speed and the planes barely rocked to and fro. I almost got a private pilot license and my training guy was ex military who taught me flying is all about throttle & engine power. I was soloing when my parents figured out I was actually going to get my license and cut me off. I was going to school at the same time and they suddenly decided it was too expensive. One parent (mom) is retired from airline work at a major.