Pilots Who Have NO Turboprop Time

[dogtown]

deleated

 

[Motive Flow]

Keep up them hand-flying and raw data skillz!

In the ERJ, the A/P can be deferred (also the FD, I think).

 

[BoilerUP]

In the ERJ, the A/P can be deferred (also the FD, I think).

Same thing in the CRJ. Got to hand-fly three legs (about 4 hours total block) a couple weeks ago because CA's FD was on MEL along with the AP.

 

[jtrain609]

Same thing in the CRJ. Got to hand-fly three legs (about 4 hours total block) a couple weeks ago because CA's FD was on MEL along with the AP.

WOW a whole four hours! Can I have your autograph? Three legs for four hours of flight time in a Beech 1900 is a short day.

Wimps

 

[BoilerUP]

WOW a whole four hours! Can I have your autograph? Three legs for four hours of flight time in a Beech 1900 is a short day.

Wimps

Hand flying a swept-wing jet at FL270 and 430kts with no FD up and down the friggin' east coast where a violation is waiting to happen is much different than 17,000ft and 220 kts in a straight-wing turboprop. Are you even flying the Beech? Its not listed in your profile...

This isn't a RJ vs. T-prop issue (as stated I have the utmost respect for 19 seat tprop pilots), I was responding to someone wondering if the FD & AP could be MEL'd...I simply confirmed that it could because I did it a couple weeks ago.

 

[Beech Balls]

I love the Beech. It's so hard-core sometimes.....VOR Circle at night in a snowstorm to land on a snowy runway (aim between the lights....that's all you see anyways) with a 15 knot crosswind...am I crazy?....probably...do I love it? most definitely....but I'm lookin' to fly a 737 sooner rather than later....after a while, money becomes a defining factor.

 

[Mr Wu]

I love the Beech. It's so hard-core sometimes.....VOR Circle at night in a snowstorm to land on a snowy runway (aim between the lights....that's all you see anyways) with a 15 knot crosswind...am I crazy?....probably...do I love it? most definitely....but I'm lookin' to fly a 737 sooner rather than later....after a while, money becomes a defining factor.

There's so much B/S in this post that I can hear the cows mooing. You've never done a circle outside the sim and 15kts x-wind on a contaminated runway? Please. Get back to learnin how to push the button.

 

[BenderGonzales]

"Hand flying a swept-wing jet at FL270 and 430kts with no FD up and down the friggin' east coast where a violation is waiting to happen is much different than 17,000ft and 220 kts in a straight-wing turboprop."

Hehehehe. The replacement jet sounds pretty impressive when you describe it like that. You'd think you were flying the Starship Enterprise or something. No coffin corner, lethargic near-jet performance, VNAV... (yawn)

I'm not impressed. I'd put my money on the Beech driver.

 

[jtrain609]

There's so much B/S in this post that I can hear the cows mooing. You've never done a circle outside the sim and 15kts x-wind on a contaminated runway? Please. Get back to learnin how to push the button.

I know Beach Balls, he can't get a lady to save his life but he is one of us.

 

[BoilerUP]

Hehehehe. The replacement jet sounds pretty impressive when you describe it like that. You'd think you were flying the Starship Enterprise or something. No coffin corner, lethargic near-jet performance, VNAV... (yawn)

I'm not impressed. I'd put my money on the Beech driver.

Good, because you have no reason to be impressed. I was only doing my job. I wasn't bragging, I simply stated what I did at work. Yes, it was more work than turning the AP on at 10,000ft and yes, after the third leg I was tired and looking forward to the overnight.

If if came down to a test of sheer ability between Beech pilot handflying vs. me handflying an RJ, I'd bet on the Beech guy myself. I'm 100% confident in my abilities, but no jet pilot used to the level of automation an RJ has is as sharp as a 19 seat turboprop pilot used to flying in the slag with no AP. That's just a simple fact.

Why the righteous indignation toward small jet pilots?

(talk about thread creep)