Ask the Captain: Do planes have quirks like cars?
Owners of cars, trucks and motorcycles, especially older models, learn the quirks of their vehicles and how to safely compensate for them while driving. It made me wonder if flight crews recognize individual planes when their airlines own dozens or hundreds of the same model. Are modern commercial aircraft maintained so precisely that individual airplanes of the same model do not have unique mechanical or electrical quirks that pilots notice in flight? How often do pilots at major airlines fly the exact same (by tail number) airplanes? ...
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