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Old Dec 17, 2016 | 7:12 am
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Originally Posted by tuolumne

I don't like the long ... takeoff rolls, I'll tell you that.
Originally Posted by clubord
I have 1000's of hours the 739 myself, the long landings are what I don't like.

That plane is tough to slow down and stop, uses a lot of runway.
Just read through this thread and surprised it took so long for someone to mention this. While it's obviously adequate, it seems under-powered compared to the other aircraft in the fleet. Every once in a while on takeoff I get this weird feeling we're going to run out of runway . Or that the pilot is planning to drive to our destination.

But I agree with others, overall comfort is probably the worst of the mainline planes, and still worst if you include the E170 and E175.
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