Question for Dornier Drivers

[Rotorhead]

StaySeated,
At Skyway do all of your takeoffs involve TOGA power or do you have a reduced thrust program?

 

[StaySeated]

Always TOGA.

We have data for reduced power, and you know it is easy to set the power bugs, yet we always push em to the stops and let the fadec worry about everything else. Kind of dumb, imho.

 

[328dude]

I third the seat. I usually use the backing for the jumpseat as a cusion. Some of em stick though.
I atually found out that some of our dork props (three) actually have spoilers up there but are disconnected. I guess we really don't need them. I'm wondering about the Dorkjet though, do you guys have problems with your brakes getting to hot? Seems to happen alot for us even without getting on them that hard. I think you guys have steel brakes right?
Dimension wise, the dork is bigger inside the cockpit then the DC-9. (actually got bored and looked it up).

I can't amagine going from the Dork to the CRJ. I jumpseated on Comair a few times, and I don't know what I would do without that descent green dashed arch. LOL Nothing against the CRJ.

So in theory, if the Dorkjet is nothing more then a Dorkprop frame with jets, then I take it our Vne of 270 is a prop limitation right?
Just curious.

These new airplanes we are gtting from Air Whisky are said to be coming without APU's. Your right my friend, things are going to suck this winter and summer.

 

[Rotorhead]

Carbon brakes on the jet, have never seen anything more than a temp trend CAS, always gone by the time I get to the gate. The airplane is very easy to stop in a very calm manner, reverse thrust is unnecessary on this airplane. Vmo on the jet is 270k to 8000'(FAR limited) then 300k till Mmo of .66 is reached.

 

[TedCFII]

Another nickname for the EMB is the Rickety Rocket. It's fast, but the construction is pretty flimsy. Our maintenance department called it Every Mechanic's Bane.
The Saab 340 came to be called the Saabomatic when it first came out, since it was the first heavily automated regional airliner. It's name also stood for Send Another Aircraft Behind. It had its share of teething problems!

I always thought SAAB stood for... "Somethings Almost Always Broken"