Skyway / ACA's old 328Jets

[greenpickle]

New theory

I think the majority of our loads were soilders from the base. I'm also pretty sure that they were not paying a full ticket price either. Hence their bags were always bumped when we were overweight, which was almost every Friday. Sad to see the place go. I loved getting lost on the way back to the hotel from the booby bar. Especially on that stand up we used to do, that sucked. Good times, Going to miss Brenda especially.

Great 248! Now I know why we are leaving. The car was to be used ONLY for:

1. Shuttling back and forth from the airport to the hotel,

2. Whipping sh:tties in the Wal Mart parking lot.

3. "Time to Climb" races up the mountian.

4. Whatever Brenda needed to do

5. Whatever Brenda's friends needed to do

6. Hauling hay

7. Pickin up chicks

8. Snipe hunting

9. Avoiding FO

There was never any tolerance for taking it to the Booby bar. I bet they found out and kicked us out. Nice job 248.

GP

 

[248to2.8]

There was never any tolerance for taking it to the Booby bar. I bet they found out and kicked us out. Nice job 248.

GP

It was either that or the airport manager is finally following up on his threats of removing my driving privileges for squealing the tires in the parking lot and almost running through a stop sign that was hidden. If it was my fault, my apologies to all. But that titty bar in IMT sure is great. Oh wait, not supposed to go there either.

248

 

[Tram]

So, just out of curiosity - why does everyone hate the Do328?

 

[248to2.8]

They don't. The Dork jet is awesome. It's slow, great for building PIC jet time, it only requires 1 bitch in back, it is an all around great plane. When it first came out it had a lot of mx problems just like any new plane does. The mechs here at Skyway became very good at fixing it and once all the little ideosyncrasies were figured out, it worked great, here anyways. Not so great at ACA from what I hear. Personally I really like it.

 

[Propsync]

So, just out of curiosity - why does everyone hate the Do328?

Because we lowered the bar for 32 seat jet payrates. Everyone else is suffering because of us.

 

[fam62c]

Because we lowered the bar for 32 seat jet payrates. Everyone else is suffering because of us.

Skyway IS the bar for 32 seat jet payrates, nobody else operates the plane and there was only one other carrier (ACA) that ever did. I'm pretty sure that the Skyway rates for the plane were pretty close to our concessionary rates for the plane at ACA. Who is suffering because of Skyway?

You would think with the low pilot rates for the planes and the low lease rates that Skyway would get more of them. I think that they have discovered what ACA and Delta already knew......the plane costs almost as much to operate as a 50 seater and has 36% less seats in it. The thing can't make money.

I can't tell from your post if it was meant to be a joke or not.

 

[dojetdriver]

They don't. The Dork jet is awesome. It's slow, great for building PIC jet time, it only requires 1 bitch in back, it is an all around great plane. When it first came out it had a lot of mx problems just like any new plane does. The mechs here at Skyway became very good at fixing it and once all the little ideosyncrasies were figured out, it worked great, here anyways. Not so great at ACA from what I hear. Personally I really like it.

Agreed, the plane as awsome. I think most of our (ACA's) problem the fact that we operated over 30 of them and not enough parts to go around. Our Mx guys were some of the best and worked hard to keep them them flying. I also believe they had issues with uppper management on support type stuff.

On short route segments it didn't matter if you were slow and structually limited to .66m or .78 (emb) or .85 (crj), you'd never get there anyway.

 

[248to2.8]

Yea we had problems with parts too for a while. Then we got a great deal on some engines from China. Problem is, they don't realize what flying low over the ocean does to fan blades, and prob never inspected them. We threw a couple of fan blades during takeoff on those engines.

The Pickle probably has more to say on this, just like he does on everything else he offers comments about but has no experience on. A little Mr. know it all me thinks.

 

[greenpickle]

Whatever

Yea we had problems with parts too for a while. Then we got a great deal on some engines from China. Problem is, they don't realize what flying low over the ocean does to fan blades, and prob never inspected them. We threw a couple of fan blades during takeoff on those engines.

The Pickle probably has more to say on this, just like he does on everything else he offers comments about but has no experience on. A little Mr. know it all me thinks.

That booby dust has finally gone to your brain. I heard that you were the reason that the engines didnt last and they sent you to the Beech because it is almost impossible to destroy.... me thinks.

 

[tricky]

what are u all talking about the 328 is a pile of s#it

 

[fastbird]

It might be slow...but it will out climb anything except a fighter jet. It could have been a great plane if it had not gotten orphaned so early.

It just needed to be a 50 seater.