Biggest POS You've Ever Flown
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SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
Easy...N425QX (aka, Party Plane, Skittles, Clown Car, Gay Pride 1). One of the first build Q400's and operated in China prior to QX buying it and 424QX. They were both POS's of the first order. Different Galley configs, single FMS, no HUD's and were constantly breaking.
Thankfully she has been sent over a cliff and will die now:
Thankfully she has been sent over a cliff and will die now:
frog_flyer
FredFlyer
It's a great airplane..... when it works. It works about as often as it doesn't, unfortunately. Once FRED gets moving though, he'll keep moving.... for about 30 hours. Then he'll take a crap and you have to hope you're somewhere nice.
z987k
Well-Known Member
I like you, have been reformed.
It's the worst airplane I've ever seen. Having never flown a real King air, and my first beech product... I kind of never want to fly a beech again. I'm pretty sure the panel design is similar, and it has to be the worst panel I've ever seen in an aircraft.
staledog
Well-Known Member
I was wondering if we were talking about the same bird!! (guess not)
TheFlyingTurkey
Fetus Worshiper
The flight school I was a CFI at (a particular academy no longer located in Fort Pierce, FL) purchased 4 Piper Arrows from a flight school in Livermore, CA. and I was chosen to fly one of them back to FL. It was an old crappy Arrow with only one working VOR reciever, half the panel lights were burnt out, and it vapor locked at every fuel stop. Oh, and it was painted white and an ugly school bus yellow. Other than the crappy plane the trip was great, a true cross country.
arkflyr
Well-Known Member
Bubble Boy...the worst Baron Airnet had. The tail would flutter like a humming bird when you'd pull back on the yoke.
After that it'd be the LR55 TFaudree_ERAU is talking about.
Now Mike, I have to take offense to this. That was one of the better ones we had in BHM. It had MHS's name on the side in permanent marker under the window like a fighter jet. You need to find a pic of 696BD or 9189Q, both of which were the absolute finest vintage of crap to ever fly under the starcheck call sign.
Nick
lol!
It got to the point where I would refuse to fly 9189Q. It would take two mx logs to cover all the squawks after every flight.
A150K
Well-Known Member
Wow...Close the thread now, we have a winner!I've flown quite a few 55's, and there was one I flew which was especially crappy. I was almost to V1 speed taking off at Midway and the entire 65 pound instrument panel fell onto my shins. I mean literally the whole dash fell out. All 7 camlock screws had broken or stripped out. I had to have the other guy taxi in because I couldn't move my legs or feet to steer. There were plenty of other problems too, I never had a flight in that thing where something didn't go wrong. Freaking N95WK.
I've had all sorts of stuff break/fall off of various freight airplanes, but holy crap, the whole freaking panel. You win!I've flown quite a few 55's, and there was one I flew which was especially crappy. I was almost to V1 speed taking off at Midway and the entire 65 pound instrument panel fell onto my shins. I mean literally the whole dash fell out. All 7 camlock screws had broken or stripped out. I had to have the other guy taxi in because I couldn't move my legs or feet to steer. There were plenty of other problems too, I never had a flight in that thing where something didn't go wrong. Freaking N95WK.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
NXXX1N.
40+ year old Cherokee 6 with nearly 16000 hours. For some unidentifiable reason it's 10 knots and several hundred FPM slower than every other airplane in the fleet, no matter how many times the engine and prop have been changed. Also the entire airplane creaks and squeaks in turbulence.
Second place is that Duchess tiredcfi posted about... 57RT aka RattleTrap aka RoachTrap aka RottenTrash etc...
40+ year old Cherokee 6 with nearly 16000 hours. For some unidentifiable reason it's 10 knots and several hundred FPM slower than every other airplane in the fleet, no matter how many times the engine and prop have been changed. Also the entire airplane creaks and squeaks in turbulence.
Second place is that Duchess tiredcfi posted about... 57RT aka RattleTrap aka RoachTrap aka RottenTrash etc...
chrisreedrules
Master Blaster
The biggest POS I flew was a 1950s something 182 dropping divers. Had to dead-stick it in a couple times, numerous runaway props, and it had a lot of duck tape. One radio that barely worked. Awful aircraft that I'm surprised never killed someone. I know of several occasions when it was over-speeded in extremely rough air and I never felt comfortable flying it. We always played Rock Paper Scissors to see who had to fly it. The day I quit I dead-sticked it in after an engine failure at 10,000 right after kicking the divers out the door. The governor broke and the prop went berserk and I came in over the numbers after a stretched out glide with oil pouring out from under the prop hub. What a day.
scooter2525
Very well Member
You should probably stop flying through lightning...
TFaudree_ERAU
Mashin' dem buttons
It was purchased by my boss' father through a DEA repo auction; you know, owned by a Colombian drug lord, etc etc. Flying it through lightning was probably the least abuse it had seen.
scooter2525
Very well Member
At least it's had an interesting history. Maybe you need to fly it through lightning....
TFaudree_ERAU
Mashin' dem buttons
I kept waiting for the tower to tell us we had a stream of white powder trailing us