- The navigation system on the Airbus and other modern jets is descended from a design for the Apollo space programme.
- The electronic terrain clearance map on the Airbus and other modern jets was originally designed for cruise missiles.
- We can send a text message from the aircraft in the air. (Operational use only!)
- We can ring any telephone number in the world from the aircraft in the air. (Operational use only!)
- On Airbus and other European aircraft, a switch is ‘on’ when it is
down. On Boeings and other US aircraft, it is ‘on’ when it is up.
- There is no Row 13 in our aircraft cabins.
The aircraft paperwork is called the Ship’s Papers.
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- The cockpit side windows are called the windscreens, but the front windows are called the windshields.
- When making a tight turn on the ground, one of the two nose wheel tyres comes off the ground.
- The strobe lights on the wing tips of an Airbus make a double flash. On a Boeing they make a single flash.
- When you flush the toilet on the Airbus and other modern jets, you
are opening a hole in the pressure hull (into the unpressurised part of
the aircraft, not overboard!)
- When we make a tight turn on the runway, the pilot will be over the grass when the turn is started.
- From the flight deck we can see only the wingtips, not the engines.
- When the main wheels touch down, the A321 pilot is still 21ft above the runway.
- Airbus pilots have a folding table in front of them. (Boeing pilots do not.)
- A full fuel load on our A321s is up to 26,700 litres.
- All the essential flying and system information is supplied to the two pilots on a total of six screens.
- The three hydraulic systems on an Airbus 320/321 are named after colours – green, yellow, blue.
- There are over 200 computers in an Airbus A320.
- On descending to land a synthetic (male) voice calls out our height above the ground.
- Source.
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