Cargo Prop Pecking Order

[derg]

Can anyone help?

I've been reading some old posts here and I can't quite figure out where one would start and where one would allude to upgrade to. Obviously, I do know turboprop > recip.

1900
Metroliner
Caravan
Cessna 402
Beech 99
Navajo
Chieftain
MU-2

 

[flyingbum]

I don't get it?

On another note, the ameriflight thread has been dead for over a month now. This has to be a record. Party on Garth.

 

[JeppUpdater]

In order of awesomeness:

F-14
Metroliner/MU-2
most airliners
most business jets (not Citations)
1900
402 (Cessna, not Beech), Navajo/Chieftan - all recips, but twins
Caravan
Single engine piston poppers

 

[z987k]

Can anyone help?

I've been reading some old posts here and I can't quite figure out where one would start and where one would allude to upgrade to. Obviously, I do know turboprop > recip.

1900
Metroliner
Caravan
Beech 402
Navajo
Chieftain
MU-2

The Beech 402 is a Cessna and a recip. The Van in single engine and honestly one of the recip twins will do far more for your career unless the van is on floats and you want to fly floats.
Past that they're all airplanes and as long as you're landing it on a really long piece of pavement, probably with an ILS... well an airplane is an airplane. They all more or less fly the same.

 

[Groundpounder]

@DPApilot is too fat to fit in any of them

 

[derg]

The Beech 402 is a Cessna and a recip. The Van in single engine and honestly one of the recip twins will do far more for your career unless the van is on floats and you want to fly floats.
Past that they're all airplanes and as long as you're landing it on a really long piece of pavement, probably with an ILS... well an airplane is an airplane. They all more or less fly the same.

Crap. Blame it on the beer. Correcting...

 

[Hacker15e]

Obviously, I do know turboprop > recip.

The rule in aviation is that anything with radials up front and a tailwheel in back is better than anything with a stinky nosewheel...and especially better than any kerosene burner.

Thus:

And...

And even....

 

[z987k]

Crap. Blame it on the beer. Correcting...

You should probably get the EMB-120 and the SF340 in there. Also a Chieftain and a Navajo are more or less the same airplane. +40hp and a couple inches on the fuselage. (PA31-310 vs PA31-350.)

 

[Groundpounder]

Don't forget the Convair 580/5800 as well, there are quite a few of those running around still.

 

[tlewis95]

Out of your list there?

MU2
Metro
Irrelevant

However it is really Radials > Garrets > PT6s > horizontally opposed

 

[milleR]

From a career standpoint the Metro/1900 would probably be the end goal since they require type ratings. If you just want to put hair on your chest then the Mits takes the day

 

[USMCmech]

I quote myself from a thread a while back regarding freight dog pilots

"Flight express pilots flying a 210 with no radar through FL are the wolf/dog hybrid freight dogs

The guys flying old Falcons, Lears, ect on demand are the pit bulls.

Anybody else flying pistons is a rottwiler.

Feeder flying on turbine equipment (208, 1900, BE99)makes you a German Shephard. If it has a glass panel, you get demoted to Labrador retriever.

UPS and FedEx pilots are collies. Used to be real working dogs, but nowadays they sit around and look pretty "

 

[Itchy]

The rule in aviation is that anything with radials up front and a tailwheel in back is better than anything with a stinky nosewheel...and especially better than any kerosene burner.

Thus:

And...

And even....

The 18 is near and dear to my heart.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

I don't see the Irish Concorde on here anywhere yet.

 

[T-Gates]

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[USMCmech]

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I want to fly one of those, just because they are so godawful ugly

 

[Adler]

Don't forget the Convair 580/5800 as well, there are quite a few of those running around still.

What about

 

[milleR]

What about

That may be the only prop louder than the MU-2. Those darts scream.

 

[ppragman]

Turbine suburban flight. Cargo out, pax back, was waiting for them in "Brrr Country."

These guys brought in a load of "go bang stuff" while I was doing a crew change.

These guys brought in moose hunter gear to Farewell.

 

[T-Gates]

That may be the only prop louder than the MU-2. Those darts scream.

That's a 580, so those are Allison 501's. The 600 series Convairs (F-27's and G-I's too) have the Darts. The sound of a Dart engine can best be described as 10,000 pairs of scissors, all being used at once.