Hilarious Reddit Review of the Q400 (NSFW)

I remember in the Dornier 328 the toilet flush motor was powered by an alternator that only functioned when the props were out of feather. So if you wanted to flush on the ground, you grabbed a cup of coffee from the galley and poured it down there.

The instrument panel was plastic and held on by Velcro. So it fell off frequently. You had to have Hulk Hogan pinky muscles to pull the reverse triggers. If you decided not to use reverse the brakes would overheat.

I could go on. Germany was a full employment state so every out of work engineer in the country got to add their little bit of absurdity to that piece of crap.

Next lets talk about the Jetstream. While all of Europe's finest engineers were designing the Concorde, an intern designed the J31...

Oh, by the way. (For the young guys) Props are big spinny things that used to propel airplanes before RJs. We also navigated using these things called VORs that required you to tune frequencies and follow airways and use maps... [emoji39]
 
pete2800 said:
I hate to pile on... but while we're on the subject....


- When you try to go direct to a waypoint, and transition from hdg to nav, the airplane always turns the wrong way.
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That's not a bug, it's just the airplane being safe by doing a clearing turn to allow you to look for other traffic.

My personal favorite is the VANV's tendency to level off 300ft high, realize "oops, wrong altitude", and then shove the nose down to get back where it's supposed to be.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
Oh, by the way. (For the young guys) Props are big spinny things that used to propel airplanes before RJs. We also navigated using these things called VORs that required you to tune frequencies and follow airways and use maps... [emoji39]
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I may be a young guy, but about 1400 of my 1975TT is in twin turboprops. I love them. And I still do NDB approaches.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
I remember in the Dornier 328 the toilet flush motor was powered by an alternator that only functioned when the props were out of feather. So if you wanted to flush on the ground, you grabbed a cup of coffee from the galley and poured it down there.

The instrument panel was plastic and held on by Velcro. So it fell off frequently. You had to have Hulk Hogan pinky muscles to pull the reverse triggers. If you decided not to use reverse the brakes would overheat.

I could go on. Germany was a full employment state so every out of work engineer in the country got to add their little bit of absurdity to that piece of crap.

Next lets talk about the Jetstream. While all of Europe's finest engineers were designing the Concorde, an intern designed the J31...

Oh, by the way. (For the young guys) Props are big spinny things that used to propel airplanes before RJs. We also navigated using these things called VORs that required you to tune frequencies and follow airways and use maps... [emoji39]
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Hey, the Jetstream still had Garretts at least!
 
Richman said:
This. Time to man (or woman) up. You get paid to be a steely eyed aviator in total command of the conveyance.

Sheesh. Weak sauce.

Richman
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Bunch of whiners ;)

Back in 'Nam, it was 125 on the ground, 150 in the airplane, and the A/C packs didn't start pushing cold air 'til 10,000 feet, and we only had a 13,000ft service ceiling due to DA.

And four rectangular props on an all-metal airframe with zero sound suppression are certainly louder than two!

/soapbox

We need some metro guys to chime in here.
 
Brasilia? With an autopilot, a cockpit door, and a flight attendant to bring you a beverage over ice? And you want to compare that to a Jetstream, a 1900, or a Metro holding 19 people, a curtain, no autopilot, no FA, very little air conditioning (except maybe for the 1900), and 6-10 legs per day?

Yep. You win. You were able to identify a propeller. ;-)
 
ZapBrannigan said:
Brasilia? With an autopilot, a cockpit door, and a flight attendant to bring you a beverage over ice? And you want to compare that to a Jetstream, a 1900, or a Metro holding 19 people, a curtain, no autopilot, no FA, very little air conditioning (except maybe for the 1900), and 6-10 legs per day?

Yep. You win. You were able to identify a propeller. ;-)
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6-10 legs? Ouch. I did three legs yesterday in the SAAB with 7:17 of block. We may have a FA too, but I think we get points for some of the crazy places we go.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
Brasilia? With an autopilot, a cockpit door, and a flight attendant to bring you a beverage over ice? And you want to compare that to a Jetstream, a 1900, or a Metro holding 19 people, a curtain, no autopilot, no FA, very little air conditioning (except maybe for the 1900), and 6-10 legs per day?

Yep. You win. You were able to identify a propeller. ;-)
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Right, right, I forgot, I have to surrender my man card because of the door and the autopilot. :rolleyes:

At least it isn't that Barbie piece of (I am not allowed to say that here) that makes CFIs swoon for undetermined reasons.
 
The Garrett salute:

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ZapBrannigan said:
, no FA, and 6-10 legs per day?

Yep. You win. You were able to identify a propeller. ;-)
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I think you're trying to make a funny by saying "no FA"...there have been more than a few trips where having more than 1 FA was worse than not having one at all ;)

6-7 leg days still exist here on the Q400...too bad some airlines don't appreciate how difficult this airplane is learn/fly/manage...she a handful on the best of days.
 
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