Most Challenging Regional Aircraft??

[Coool Hand Luke]

I can't believe all you Brasillia wussies.

You had an airplane with APU (air-conditioning), a lav, an autopilot, glass, and an F/A to bring you coffee and you're whining?

You guys wouldn't have lasted ten minutes in the Jetstream.

To the tune of Gilligan's Island:

Just sit right back and you'll hear the tale
Of a typical Jetstream trip
(We) Stuff nineteen paying passengers
Aboard our tiny ship.
...........

Now that is funny!

 

[h25b]

I remember being a new hire a CHQ just before they started getting the RJ's... At that time you were a God if you were lucky enough to get the Saab 340A. Us 340 guys would look at the Jetstream guys in the crew room and think, "you poor bastards..." Then about a year later the RJ crews were looking at us in the 340's thinking, "you poor bastards..." Ah how the times change...

 

[NuGuy]

LOL, I remember seeing a post on the wall of the CLT crew room with this back in the CCAir days, except the next to last verse was:

The freon's out, the flows are bad
No damper is installed
The passengers are turning green
Their cookies will be lost, their cookies will be lost!

Nu

 

[geshields]

I can't believe all you Brasillia wussies.

You had an airplane with APU (air-conditioning), a lav, an autopilot, glass, and an F/A to bring you coffee and you're whining?

You guys wouldn't have lasted ten minutes in the Jetstream.

To the tune of Gilligan's Island:

Just sit right back and you'll hear the tale
Of a typical Jetstream trip
(We) Stuff nineteen paying passengers
Aboard our tiny ship.

No Drinks, no Stu, no Cockpit Door
Not a single luxury
Like Or-ville and Wilbur Wright
As primitive as can be
As primitive as can be

My armrest's stuck, my back is shot
I have a second job
The engines are not making torque
I wish I flew a Saab

We wrote one up, the boss is mad
It's me he wants to fire
I should have stayed in dental school
The majors will not hire
The majors will not hire

The freon's out, the flows are bad
No damper is installed
The passengers are turning green
The new guy is appalled

The pressure spikes, the radar's shot
The brand new engine quit
I hope I live to tell the tale
Of a typical Jetstream trip.
A-board our ti-ny ship!

I forgot all about that rhyme. That was passed around the TSA crew lounge regularly back in the day....

 

[81Horse]

Based on that Jetstream song (which I have never read before, so I'm LMAO now!), I declare the Jetstream to be WORSE than the Brasilia.

However, there once was a time when Metro drivers would watch a Jetstream go by (in freon-induced comfort) and think, "You lucky bastards!" Passengers thought they were a big improvement over the Metros, too. And based on this, I declare the Metro WORST.

Unless you'd all like to go even farther back, to the Beech 99 and the Bandeirante. Because those guys used to watch Metros taxi by and think, "You lucky bastards!"

 

[geojet707]

The "Wiggle Pig"
AKA Jetstream 32

No autopilot...short "arm" (center of wing to tail)
we got real good with trim....and landing gear made for carrier landings(no joke!!)

AMEN....nothing like the J-Ball!!!!

 

[81Horse]

... short "arm" (center of wing to tail) ...

Plus the big dihedral. A real Dutch roll factory.

 

[jester757]

Word...J-ball is the worst. But don't all you former J-31 pilots wish you had half the scan we had back then? I know I do!

 

[geshields]

Word...J-ball is the worst. But don't all you former J-31 pilots wish you had half the scan we had back then? I know I do!

Yes and no...

I sort of like the LNAV, VNAV with autopilot and an awesome A/C system now...and a map...that will automatically figure out the holds for me and draw me a pretty picture....

 

[BenderGonzales]

well that was back when we were aviators. Now we are simply pilots -- the preverbial monkey who pushes the button to get the banana.