WSJ Article on PSA at CRW

dasleben said:
I loooove the split flaps. The plane would be a serious pain in the ass to fly without the split flaps and high Vfe15/Vle speeds. Cessna did good. :)
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Dunno, I'd love to fly the 402 though. Cessna builds a dammed good product in my experience. I have nothing but respect for the 206/207 series of airplanes. The 207 in particular is about the best dammed 135 Alaska Mailplane for legs of under 1 hr that there is. Seriously, if you can't make money with that airplane up here, you should quit trying. It gets off short enough, doesn't bulk out, and can carry five pax? What more does a guy want?

As a hijack, how long are your legs there at the cape?
 
ppragman said:
Dunno, I'd love to fly the 402 though. Cessna builds a dammed good product in my experience. I have nothing but respect for the 206/207 series of airplanes. The 207 in particular is about the best dammed 135 Alaska Mailplane for legs of under 1 hr that there is. Seriously, if you can't make money with that airplane up here, you should quit trying. It gets off short enough, doesn't bulk out, and can carry five pax? What more does a guy want?

As a hijack, how long are your legs there at the cape?
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I hear that. The 402 is a great plane...not sure why Cessna doesn't build them anymore. 9 people plus bags...easily done on shorter routes, and we burn 180pph in cruise. Nothing else does what it does that efficiently.

My legs in the Mid-Atlantic region are about 35 minutes long, but we have legs that range from 15 minutes to 1.5 hours (BOS-SLK, LEB-HPN). Better bring earplugs on the latter flights.

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ppragman said:
Welllllllll......

This may be the bush rat in me, but you'll break ground quicker if you dump in some flaps as you're rolling. Don't know how well that'd work in a CRJ, but you can reconfigure in the roll, you won't climb all that well at first, but if the strip is short, or if you're past V1 and you're running out of runway, you could dump full flaps and break ground provided there isn't any terrain, or obstacles in the wya.
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Brotha, you've never been to CRW. and if they went full flaps they be toast. As I posted earlier I think I do it in a SE cessna.
 
zmiller4 said:
An airplane you don't have to re-configure at rotation speed to get it off the ground in time?
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That's only the case when you're operating from truly marginal strips with a stol kit. The airplane doesn't need any bush maneuvers or special techniques when operating out of anything 1500' or longer. Which is pretty much everywhere, except for the occasional strip.

dasleben said:
I hear that. The 402 is a great plane...not sure why Cessna doesn't build them anymore. 9 people plus bags...easily done on shorter routes, and we burn 180pph in cruise. Nothing else does what it does that efficiently.

My legs in the Mid-Atlantic region are about 35 minutes long, but we have legs that range from 15 minutes to 1.5 hours (BOS-SLK, LEB-HPN). Better bring earplugs on the latter flights.

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.6 to .9 is the perfect leg length. Awesome. Don't have to worry about running out of bladder, you get a lot of takeoffs and landings, and when you're working for a company small enough so that that is the typical leg length you're interacting with passnegers on a regular basis. Double awesome.
 
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