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Originally Posted by gnirtS

Bull****, its entire down to the airlines preference and ordering. There is no default interior. Every airline specifies exactly what they want. Thats how they budget for it and how they maintain conformity between the entire fleet.

I've worked next to the Boeing interior design for nearly 5 years and Boeing's options are going to be different from Airbus's options. They make their own seats / interior's and no they are not the same. Matter of fact, new versions are even kept secret. Wait till you see the 787! I've seen things that are not yet released! I'll fly that aircraft every day of the week if I could!

So they both do it? Whats the issue? 757/767/777 yes. The 737 and others dont follow it.

Lets see here - 737/747 share, as well as the 757/767/777 share. The logic here? It doesn't take rocket science to figure out that if you are certified on one 737, it is a bad idea to change things around. So you really only need two cockpits - and of course, if all aircraft had been designed in the same period, this would have probably only been one.

This is all pointless though - you are still dealing with shared cockpit designs - where you have 2 total. Its not like the old days where each aircraft had its own! I remember those days.

Firstly lets see exactly how many incidents have happened due to that. Exactly zero. Seconly you appear blisfully unaware that hard limits arent a feature in the newer airbus aircraft.
You also appear to ignore the incidents where boeing planes have been damaged by flight crew accidentally taking the airframe over its limits which would not have occurred on an airbus. 737 and rudder reversal comes to mind a lot.

737 Rudder reversal can not be contributed to the pilots. Boeing denies this, but they need to face it. Period. The black boxes do not show pilot commanded input causing the problem (hydraulic issue?). There was one case of rocking by a pilot who liked to use hard rudder inputs for some unknown reason, but only one. Scratch that - just found it - it was an Airbus that he was flying and he snapped the rudder off. Sorry - my mistake. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...436374,00.html

Still the 737 is one of the safest airplanes to fly, with the 600 series and up showing only 0.14 fatal accidents per million takeoffs and landings - better than its Airbus counterparts, especially the A310 which has a score of 1.39. By the way, the only aircraft flying commercially even that has not only never killed anyone, but also never even had an incident like sliding off a runway is a 777.

Oh - On your hard limiter not causing crashes - Something to watch -

By the way, where is it said that they removed the hard limiters? I can find no evidence to support that claim.

Or work on your diet and general fitness. If aircraft made people sick every time they fly the world would have a real problem. HEPA filters and so on cut most of the bugs but at the end of the day its a confined space with 300 people on board just like a train, cinema, sports ground and so on. No way to avoid that without giving everyone their own little space suit.

Agreed - except the fitness part. Can't help the guy sitting next to you coughing up a storm! You sit there in the terminal and hope that guy doesn't sit next to you, and when he does... I guess it could be worse - It could be a 300 pounder who has to sit in the seat sideways!