Any West Air pilots on here??

[chperplt]

oh yea...160 to the marker, 120 over the fence and still make the first available taxiway sure slows things down, dosent it

Well......actually..... Yea, it does slow things down a bit. Have you ever had to wait for departure clearance for 15-20 minutes while you wait for it to land?

How about 245 to the marker, 140 over the fence, and still make the first available taxiway... Nothing beats a Beech 1900!!

 

[FearlessFreep]

Actually I would have to disagree in one area. Enroute, yes the Caravan is a slug. Though during descent on approach it is pretty typical to fly everything at Vmo which is 175 kts. and take that down to the beginning of the approach lights (some guys take it to short final).

West Air operates into KOAK and they typically utilize runway 29 as it is closer to the Fedex facility. 29 is the runway that all the larger jet traffic operates on. The North Field is relegated to mostly general aviation traffic. In any case we have to integrate with all the jet traffic on 29. Once the jets come up on the marker they have to be at target and at that point it is pretty easy to catch them in the Caravan.

I got this call from Oakland South tower once:

"Pac Valley 8700 just want to make you aware that you have a 30 knot overtake on that Southwest 737 in front of you."

No worries!

 

[WrightAvia]

Well......actually..... Yea, it does slow things down a bit. Have you ever had to wait for departure clearance for 15-20 minutes while you wait for it to land?

How about 245 to the marker...

Call it Cessna's block time pay inhancement factor for regional pilots, if it makes you feel any better about it.

If we had a faster airplane, I'd have to work 5 days a week, instead of 10 days a month. I'm not complaining. In fact last month's holiday, gave me a 9 day work month. I knock on wood alot.

Being able to do 245 to the marker, means many markers during day and living out of a suitcase.

 

[wingnutt]

Have you ever had to wait for departure clearance for 15-20 minutes while you wait for it to land?

nope. sounds like y'all need some new controllers if your waiting for a Caravan thats 20 minutes out

and fearles is right (along with being an enroute slug) descent right at VMO was the norm...but "officially" we kept it to about 160. you can tell its "unofficial" by that little "beep-beep" you hear when he calls in, cause the airspeed warning wont shuttheheckup...unless of course you "unofficially" pulled the breaker