Air Jamaica - Airbus A300B4-203 (6Y-JMS) - Flight Deck

            Not much left in this cockpit...  It has been sitting on the ground in this condition for several years now.  The southern Arizona climate (and massive lack of rain) keeps these old birds in good shape and keeps the corrosion away - even with windows missing.

Aircraft operated by Varig from 1981-1990 as PP-VND and Air Jamaica from 1990-1996 as 6Y-JMS.  Aircraft was registered as N143EV to Evergreen in 2001, but I don't know that it ever actually left MZJ.  This same registration (6Y-JMS) is now in use by Air Jamaica on an Airbus A321 aircraft.

Her last flights appear to have been on September 26, 1996 from Kingston, Jamaica (KIN) to Miami, Florida (MIA) and then on to Marana, Arizona (MZJ).

It is always nice to see an Airbus that actually had yokes and worked like a real airplane - with cables running from the cockpit to the control surfaces.  The newer, fly-by-wire Airbus models that use computers to completely control the aircraft during flight leave a lot of room for problems.  A pilot should be in control of his aircraft - not forced to make suggestions to a computer that may or may not agree with what the pilot wants to do.

Taken on: January 1, 2008

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Camera: Canon EOS 20D, f/4.0, 1/250 sec, 10mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 20D
Lens:	10.0-22.0 mm
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-1/3 EV
Flash:	On, Fired
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
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Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
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