What in the world does having (or not having) an ATP have to do with low-time pilots or air traveler safety? Yes, some airline pilots don't have the time to get an ATP, but I'd also remind you that many, many regional FOs are flying on commercial tickets with several thousand hours. Some of us...
Besides for the money part, you sure you're not posting about yourself?
What do people find so difficult about separating Moore's point from his antics? If that fooktard Glen Beck or that pill-popper Rush Limbaugh, or that skinny shrill wind-bag Ann Coulter engages in theatrics to make a...
Neither will the Q400.
And the only Q400 autopilot limitation regarding icing is that it is prohibited in severe icing. The NTSB jumped the gun on trying to imply that there was anything wrong with operating the Q400 in less than severe icing conditions with the autopilot engaged.
Whoever-owns-Frank-Lorenzo's-screen-name for ALPA President! (And Teamsters President, for that matter.)
Who'd have thought that amidst all the dripping sarcasm, we'd have a real prophet of "taking in back" on our hands.
Using the tiny adjustment screw beneath the foam mic cover, while flying try turning your mic gain up a little. You'll need something approximating a jeweler's screwdriver which you can get past TSA. This fix solved a similar complaint I had about the 850s.
"In flight, the spoilers extend in proportion to the up going aileron to provide roll control. .... To reduce roll sensitivity, outboard spoiler operation is deactivated at speeds greater than 170 kias."
BTW, inboard spoilers powered by #1 hyd and outboard powered by #2 hyd. Only have a roll...
Stick pusher in the Q400 will not go off below 500'. There is a switch light on the glareshield to disable it in the event of a malfunction. I don't know if any other combination of techniques, other than pulling to over-power it or flying out of it, will work.
I'm sorry; I thought I addressed this. Yes, the Q400 requires a significant amount of rudder input to counteract the torque effects. I would fully expect, though I haven't tried it in a sim, that if you add full power (10,000 shp to 13' conventional rotating props) at slow speed, it will roll...
At or above 215 kcas
Altitude great than 500 AGL
Other misc. items:
Stick pusher activation requires 2 independent signals from 2 separate stall protection modules.
For stick pusher, the SPMs look at:
AOA (averaged from two AOA vanes; pusher will not operate if either AOA transducer fails or...
There are two caution lights associated with the airframe deice system: one that indicates a loss of deice pressure (with a backup gauge) and/or the failure of a boot set to fully inflate after the distributor valve opens or if a boot set remains inflated after the distributor valve closes...
The Q400 autopilot/FD is weird, especially compared to the 200. It has trouble capturing LOC well, it will often initially turn the wrong way, for example, when proceeding DTO a fix in LNAV, especially if it is a fairly large angle turn. It corrects itself after a second or two. We call it...
Q400 sim is not interchangeable with the 100-200-300 series.
Difference between shaker and pusher is .05 Vso (shaker 1.1, pusher 1.05).
I don't know what Colgan's manual says about altitude loss in a stall recovery in the Q400, but Horizon's says:
"Stall recovery is prompt following...
That either sounds like a non-ice (open bug) ref speed for flaps 15 or a ref ice speed (solid bug) for flaps 35. It does not sound right for flaps 15 solid bug.
BTW, your earlier post was excellent.
135 at flaps 5 (gear up or down) would be uncomfortably slow in the Q400 in any conditions...
Actually, no, there is no trim configuration data displayed on any screen at any time. There is hydraulic control surface position displayed (rudder, elevator, spoilers) but not trim conditions.
The elevator trim is visible from the FOs side, but pretty poorly lighted at night, and since there...
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