Caveman
Grandpa
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No you don't get pushed around in the NYC Area. If anything we get slowed all the time.
The things you can do in the Dash 8 are incredible. You could be 3000' on a 3 mile final and still stick it on the numbers.
You can take off from Hilton Head with 33 pax and be off the ground in 1500 feet.
I liked our reply last winter during a snow storm. Piedmont say breaking action! Our reply......... Sorry we didn't have to use brakes
The Dash 8 is a very, very forgiving airplane.
Dash 8 200/300 have the UNS-B's. The 100's have the old KNS660's.
I can make an airplane (even *gasp* an RJ) do some 'incredible' things too but I got all of that 'incredible' stuff out of my system flying GA airplanes. Nowadays my goal is to get them there safely, quickly and with as little drama as possible. It may not be as 'incredible' but it's a heck of a lot more professional. The reason you generally don't see mainline a/c doing 'incredible' things is judgement. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
BTW, we once had to do a go-around in LaGarbage because a Trash-8 couldn't figure out how to execute the Expressway visual and clear before he crossed 4/22. Incredible.......
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