ATR Pilots

[777forever]

ATR in a 30knt crosswind, it'll but hair on your chest...

 

[ifly4food]

Kinda like this?

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6248/image15mu0.jpg

That's not an engine, that's a Cuisinart.

"They've got hyperjets on that thing"!
"Well whadda we got on this thing? A Cuisinart"?

 

[Headfake14]

I miss the ATR...5000+ hours on her at ASA. Yes, in strong winds, it's like a kite. My highest right off the wing...30G42k. My legs were shaking and my left wrist/arm were burning. Couldn't even read the airspeed...it was all over the place...I just flew the pitch attitude I wanted.

Ah...good old days...now everything is fly-by-wire and hydrauliclly boosted. When I went from capt on the ATR to capt on the CRJ200, I over controlled the hell out of the sim for the first few sessions. The ATR was like riding a bucking horse.

 

[CFI2766]

ATR in a 30knt crosswind, it'll but hair on your chest...

It flies just like a large 182. Just keep flying it until you have the power cart plugged in, and everything will be fine.

I suspect I'm a better pilot for starting out on the ATR versus starting out on the jet. I have a LOT to learn yet, but I'm pretty comfortable flying the A/C by hand.

 

[Headfake14]

CFI2766...I agree. Flying the ATR will definately make you a better stick in the end as long as you're on it long enough to learn and finess it.

HA...and then the brakes...they're like a box of chocolates...when you press em, you never know what yer gonna get.

Plus, you'll better appreciate all the toys of a jet once there.

I went from a Metro III - to the ATR - to CRJ - to the E190.

 

[CFI2766]

Plus, you'll better appreciate all the toys of a jet once there.



The irony for me is that I came from a Cirrus Avidyne/Cessna G1000 background. (Prior to that, I learned instruments in an old 182 with two VORs and a sometimes-working DME unit. It wound up being one of the best and most difficult experiences in flying I've had.) I had plenty of glass/toys time prior to my airline experience. The stuff I had in the single-engine experience was decades ahead of what the ATR has to offer from an avionics standpoint. That being said, I think that I'm a better pilot now that I've had the ATR experience.

 

[Gulf-front]

I miss the ATR...5000+ hours on her at ASA. Yes, in strong winds, it's like a kite. My highest right off the wing...30G42k. My legs were shaking and my left wrist/arm were burning. Couldn't even read the airspeed...it was all over the place...I just flew the pitch attitude I wanted.

Ah...good old days...now everything is fly-by-wire and hydrauliclly boosted. When I went from capt on the ATR to capt on the CRJ200, I over controlled the hell out of the sim for the first few sessions. The ATR was like riding a bucking horse.

I think I did that today in Hilton Head. At least from what I can remember, it's all a blur!

 

[McNugent]

Ok who made this. Gotta love Tenacious D!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-LqEcxR0Wg

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Ok who made this. Gotta love Tenacious D!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-LqEcxR0Wg

Too funny with that music.

 

[Gulf-front]

Day in the life of an ATR pilot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_shsRfXqk

 

[BOX OFFICE]

ATR in a 30knt crosswind, it'll but hair on your chest...

Or not.

 

[Headfake14]

Or not.

haha...just noticed your quote/signature. Nice.