dashs are not that slow

[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.

 

[aldonite7667]

s%*TBOX

i DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF LEAR YOU ARE TALKIN ABOUT... IF A DASH CAN GET 10,000FPM OFF THE RUNWAY AND 2500FPM IN THE THIRTIES I'LL EAT MY SHOE...

 

[Nalo Boy]

why go fast

why do you want to go faster? we get paid by the hour, not the mile!

 

[islandhopper]

The Beech would smoke the Dash between DRO & PHX so bad we nicknamed it the big Cessna. Isn't the Dash-8 the only airplane you can get a birdstrike in from behind?

 

[Rogue5]

I certainly dig being being able to stand up in the cabin of the dash, but why did they make the main cabin door so low? Every time I ride in the back of Horizon I whack my head exactly two times: going in and going out.

At least in the Brasilia you only have to worry about going in the flight deck door, especially with the new ones.

I gotta admit whenever we roll into RDD and see Horizon's Q400 monster on the ramp a bit of drool rolls down my chin: Mmmmm, six blades and a cowling as big as a Volkswagon...

 

[LR25]

aldonite7667,

while the Lear is going down the runway at 210 kts pitching for alt., the dash left the runway in about 15% of what the Lear did, when you cross the other end of the runway your pretty high, if you let it climb, and its a 200, and if you are light.

Obviously the Lear is going to outclimb it, but the Lear hast to get off the runway first.

Would you like a napkin?

 

[cheezpilot]

All I have to say is the 328 Turbo-prop is the best. We used to call all the other turboprops "speed bumps". Room in cabin and cockpit. Climbs like a homesick angel, trues out at 320kts, Honeywell primus 2000 glass, what more can I say? Almost never weight restricted. It did take a few hits in 32C temps in Durango (6000ft). I remember taking 31 instead of 32 out that day.

 

[LearLove]

Summer of 2000, A Do-328 takesoff out of 35 in PHL at the same time a U F100 takesoff from 27L in PHL, both are going west bound. We go off of 35 in a Dash after the 328 and head to Modena VOR (we were going to MDT or IAD can't remember).

Controller tells the 328 to slow to put the F100 infront, both are on the same routing.

A few minutes later the controller says for PSA to some more because to F100 isn't overtaking the 328.

A few more minutes pass and the controller comes back and says PSA max fwd. speed your going first.

In a southern Old Piedmont/US Air voice over the freq. you here, "thats one fast turboprop", from the F100. Without skipping a beat the 328 comes back with, "No thats just one slow jet".

 

[Nalo Boy]

"my peice of junks faster than your piece of junk"

 

[328dude]

The 328 is a great machine that climbs well and is very fast. 320-340 knots true easy straight and level.

However, if you can't carry everyone's stuff to their destination like the Dash can on hot summer days, I'd settle for the extra 10 to 15 minute. Go Dash's


Enough Said.

 

[LR25]

GOOOOOOOOOO Dash