dashs are not that slow

[Sinca3]

Hum!

I would have to say the AT72 is a pretty good bird! Not as fun to fly as the J41 but rommy cockpit and much quieter. The "Cloud Plow" will true out at 270kts all day no matter the weight. Also rarely, maybe once a year, have we been load limited (66 pax and 100 bags with 4800lbs of fuel)
Drawbacks are the lack of an APU or any kind of air flow especially in the summer. Also it is a weak climber....500'-700' per minute out of 10,000'.
Just my 2 cents

Oh Yeah.....TWO flight attendants is pretty nice also!

 

[flyhard]

Texanpilot,

Is that 70k before or after beer and cigarettes? And by the way the dash in a piece of $hit.

 

[sabreliner]

I miss my Dash. I loved that airplane. Yup, its slow. So what. Set up the KNS, couple the autopilot, and watch the scenery creep by. Just try not to get stuck behind one.

Pretty cool what it would do when you slowed it up though. Don't upset a Dash driver when you're trying to follow him down final. He's likely to throw out 35 degrees of flap, and slow it up to about 90 kts. Certainly wouldn't work in my Brasilia. Climbing out at 95 kts with 15 degrees of flap was pretty darn cool too.

Kinda funny, when I was flying the Dash up in the Northeast, BEagle Saabs were constantly whining about getting stuck behind us. Now, in the Brasilia in DFW I'm the one getting slowed by 30 or 40 knots to follow the BEagle Saabs. All comes full circle I guess.

 

[Catbird]

340'. YGHB, Landing North, Brakes and Rev. Didn't spill the coffee in the POS holder. Walked up the hill to check the surf. about 8' on the face, long lefts, Hurricane to the NE.

 

[Dash8]

DHC-8-100's are slooooooooooooooooow, although I wouldn't have traded the Dash for Saab or Brasilia or any baby jet.




P.S. Dash, what the hell is that thing dangling between your chick's legs?

it's a loin cloth!

 

[OneTuffGuy]

lets be honest the dash is slow, if it isnt slow then why do they make bluestreak slow for you guys all the time on climb out and landing? they are props also. next time before you post think before you type. dashs suck unless your stuck driving one.

 

[FlyingFarmer]

Meeemmoorrieessss!

Row 9 with me and two flight attendants.....

<sigh>

Those were the days!



oh, you guys were talking about the flying?

errr... yeah that was good too, whenever I had the paper down.

 

[Dash8]

vilification

what? like those sheissebox junkjets are any better??

oh wait, i forgot, it's the almighty jet, everyone bow down to the precious rj, and those fortunate few "living the dream" that can so smugly look down upon us lowly prop drivers.

 

[Heavy Set]

Not good for connections....

The Dash is great if you don't have to catch a tight connection flight. I took one out of Albany to PIT a few weeks back (it was a surprise to me because I had a 733 on the itinerary - must have swapped at the last moment) and it added 35 minutes to my flight time. As a result, I didn't even have time for a pi$$ break in PIT because I had to literally run to my flight...

Looks like a spacious flight deck, but it really is too dang slow and it flies too dang low. I'd think it would be a problem flying in the soup all of the time during the stormy, frosty winter in the Northeast.

 

[mckpickle]

Re: Hum!

I would have to say the AT72 is a pretty good bird! Not as fun to fly as the J41 but rommy cockpit and much quieter. The "Cloud Plow" will true out at 270kts all day no matter the weight. Also rarely, maybe once a year, have we been load limited (66 pax and 100 bags with 4800lbs of fuel)
Drawbacks are the lack of an APU or any kind of air flow especially in the summer. Also it is a weak climber....500'-700' per minute out of 10,000'.
Just my 2 cents

Oh Yeah.....TWO flight attendants is pretty nice also!

What model 72 were you in? Ours did 300 knots true. No other turbo props ever passed our 72's. As far as weight, I saw 64 people 5500lbs of gas and 105 bags and about 25 gate checks and myself in the jumpseat and we were legal. The air cond rocked in the 72. NOt as good as the RJ but it would still spit ice out. As far as climb goes if you nosed it over and got the speed up it would climb at least 1200ft/min even hot. That thing was an airplane!

two FA's was nice except there was twice the chance of getting a busted one

 

[Sinca3]

Re: Re: Hum!

What model 72 were you in? Ours did 300 knots true.

two FA's was nice except there was twice the chance of getting a busted one

ATR72-212.....definately not the 500's!!


So True....!

 

[texanpilot]

Flyhard.
That was well before the 30 packs of Coors and cartons of Parlament lights. Net income = $20,000.

At least I did not work for TSA!
Beats getting a GED right!!

 

[blzr]

TexanPilot, what's up? Talkin' trash about you the other day in the crewroom. How's flyin th '75? Hope all is well with you and the missus!

 

[texanpilot]

IOE starts on the 24th,
I'm scared,
Didn't learn a darn thing at the school house,
Otherwise all is well here.

 

[LR25]

Dash 200, 15 PAX or so, about 3200 lbs of gas, and I dont think a Learjet would catch it, untill about 2500ft.

The Dash is a pilots airplane, its a DC-3 with a nose wheel.

So they keep you high on the final, pull the nose up, flatten the props, gear down, flaps 35, and you touch down on the numbers make the first turn off, your drinking coffee in the terminal while the guys flying the jet in front of you going into CLT are still running the shutdown check, or there still in line waiting to contact ramp.