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Why Boeing Pilots Can't Fly Airbus Jets Without Being Retrained (jalopnik.com)
2 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Basically, the joystick control without the force-feedback is one of the causes of Air France flight 447 crash [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447


It’s got nothing to do with the sidestick, it the aircraft’s systems as a whole. You can’t just jump from a 737 to the 787 either.

The only two Boeing families that share a type rating are the 757 and the 767.




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