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buxflyr

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So which is the best regional jet to fly?



The 200 is a dog up high, but easy to land... which A/C are better and why? Maybe someone likes the 200's! Prove it fellow RJ jockeys!
 
"I'll take Pointless Arguments for $500, Alex."


The best regional jet is the one flown by the company that has the best pay and quality of life. End of discussion.
 
Haven't flown it, but I hear the DC-9 is a pretty good RJ.

Airliners.net is calling, they want their thread back.:D
 
I would have to vote for the Bae-146 back when they were operated by the likes of PSA, American, Braniff, ect...
 
CA1900 said:
"I'll take Pointless Arguments for $500, Alex."


The best regional jet is the one flown by the company that has the best pay and quality of life. End of discussion.
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Well said.

I always find it funny that some pilots or pilot-wanna-bees come up with utterly useless arguments, comments, and opinions or try to start some sort of debates about completely childish comparisons or polls. Like the one this fella has posted. The other ones are ‘Hottest Flight Attendants’, and ‘Coolest Looking Plane’, and few more.

Unbelievable.
 
The best regional jet to fly?

No regional jet whatsoever.

On a related note, the Embraer 170/190 is not a regional jet. The only thing regional-sized about it are the payrates.
 
The Shiney Jet of course!!!!!!!
 
Shaheen said:
Well said.

I always find it funny that some pilots or pilot-wanna-bees come up with utterly useless arguments, comments, and opinions or try to start some sort of debates about completely childish comparisons or polls. Like the one this fella has posted. The other ones are ‘Hottest Flight Attendants’, and ‘Coolest Looking Plane’, and few more.

Unbelievable.
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No... A childish comparison would be "who's stretch armstrong can go the furthest without breaking". This is meant to be a fun thread where anyone can say why they like or dislike the a/c they are flying. I think hottest flight attendant poll was up somewhere in the teens of pages. Reallllly unpopular and inappropriate thread for here at FI.com. In fact...whoever started it should be in the penalty box for life. Come on....lighten up.
 
They all take you to the same sky, get you the same turbine time, and pay you crap. So does it really matter? :)
 
BoilerUP said:
The best regional jet to fly?

No regional jet whatsoever.

On a related note, the Embraer 170/190 is not a regional jet. The only thing regional-sized about it are the payrates.
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same goes for the crj700/900. same amount of seats and payrates. by the way which regional flies the 190's?
 
RAH flies the 170/175. Compass will be flying the 175. US Airways flies the E190, as does Jetblue.

Given the size, weight, range, capability and capacity of any of that whole family of airplanes, they are not regional jets. If you folks believe that they are, management is going to continue to pay you like regional pilots and treat you like regional pilots when you will be directly replacing retiring DC-9s and 737s...along with the pilots flying those narrowbodies.

How are they different than the CR7/9? Even though the E-jets are larger, weigh more, have engines under the wings and can seat more, they're basically the same thing - small jets with small pay that happen to have 70-86 seats that are replacing narrowbody mainline aircraft and therefore mainline jobs.
 
BoilerUP said:
RAH flies the 170/175. Compass will be flying the 175. US Airways flies the E190, as does Jetblue.

Given the size, weight, range, capability and capacity of any of that whole family of airplanes, they are not regional jets. If you folks believe that they are, management is going to continue to pay you like regional pilots and treat you like regional pilots when you will be directly replacing retiring DC-9s and 737s...along with the pilots flying those narrowbodies.

How are they different than the CR7/9? Even though the E-jets are larger, weigh more, have engines under the wings and can seat more, they're basically the same thing - small jets with small pay that happen to have 70-86 seats that are replacing narrowbody mainline aircraft and therefore mainline jobs.
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Good point. But I still think the E170/175's are a regional jet, just like the crj's. Just b/c it has a mainline look doesn mean its not a regional jet. Like you said, they all pay the same. Management will always pay regional pay as long as its on a regional airline certificate. Until the crj700/900/erj170/175 is flown by mainline. It makes no difference. As far as small jets replacing narrowbody mainline aircraft, I agree. But if not the Embraer family, it will be the Canadair family. Just wait till the CRJ 1000 comes out. 100 seats, yet a regional jet?
 
I'm always amazed at how cynical some pilots are. A pilot who has no favorites or no opinion on airplanes isn't really a pilot, he's just a bus driver like management claims.
 
Nindiri said:
I'm always amazed at how cynical some pilots are. A pilot who has no favorites or no opinion on airplanes isn't really a pilot, he's just a bus driver like management claims.
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Well said. You sum up most of the aviation crowd nowadays.
 
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Nindiri said:
I'm always amazed at how cynical some pilots are. A pilot who has no favorites or no opinion on airplanes isn't really a pilot, he's just a bus driver like management claims.
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Nice post. To not have favorites or opinions takes alot of the little bit of joy that is left out of this job. It can be rough enough with pay/mgmt/workrules as they are. You can always tell who the haters are when you are holding short for something to land (preferebly a training aircraft). Those that have lost the love pay no attention, the rest of us still get joy out of seeing if they bounce!
 
Nindiri said:
I'm always amazed at how cynical some pilots are. A pilot who has no favorites or no opinion on airplanes isn't really a pilot, he's just a bus driver like management claims.
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Hah. You do this long enough, and you'll realize flying commercial aircraft is a :

J. O. B.


Favorite aircraft? I've heard good things about the F-86, F-16, T-38, and P-51 though.
 
I wasn't being cynical. It's was a joke.

sheesh people

besides, my favorite airplane isn't a regional bird...

g
 
you're all stupid! the CNJ by FAR is the best to fly
 

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