The Official A380 Airbus Thread

This piece of junk recently visited Montréal on it's first scheduled Air France flight and I was there at Pierre Elliot Int'l Airport to see it. Now, before talking about design features, passenger configurations, systems, airspace separation required to bring one of these f**kers into an IFR controlled landing ( as a result of wake turbulence ) I believe the separation would have to be at least 12 - 14 Km or about 11 nautical miles ( wouldn't want to be in a Cessna 152 following too close on this leviathon's ass end .

Why the freak do we have to squish 558 poeple into a single fuselage. Might as well bring the Hindenberg back because if one of these b*****ds goes down automatically over 500 people snuff it ) save for miracles ) not to mention people on the ground if it goes down over a populated area perhaps as a reult of a bird strike on take-off. I was also doing some research on Airbus,' safety record in general. Scary.

So, from a layamn's point of view thoughts on this "thing". Would you fly on it? I'd rather drive a Ford Edsel in a Formula One race myself.

I think that they eventually recovered the black box ( which is actually red ). They had to use a nuclear sub. Military aircraft don't have room for those sort of things. A civilian flying on a demonstration flight for media purposes had to sign a document  releasing us of anything that could go wrong. Believe me many things went wrong. When I flew 111s when on exchange with the Aussies we needed  two guys to flly the aircraft and therefore  no media flights were permitted.

It is wierd as a former military pilot I still suffer from acrophobia ( fear of heights ).