Dornier 328eco roll out

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D328eco® test aircraft rolls out: A defining milestone in sustainable regional aviation

Deutsche Aircraft has proudly unveiled the first D328eco test aircraft (TAC 1) at their headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen, a transformative moment for regional aviation.
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I feel like I have missed the entire thesis of this airplane, but I'll ask........is that a jet, or just a prop without props?
 
BobDDuck said:
Prop without the props put on. But who knows... the original D328 started as a pretty amazing turboprop and ended up as a pretty average (although don't tell the Midwest Express guys that) regional jet.
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They just need to put the props on the other end. That fixes all inefficiencies. I saw it once on a video in the mid 90's
 
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BobDDuck said:
Prop without the props put on. But who knows... the original D328 started as a pretty amazing turboprop and ended up as a pretty average (although don't tell the Midwest Express guys that) regional jet.
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I don’t know if I’d go for “amazing”…if could have been. Absolutely smashing flight deck, fast, went high, etc.

However, it was a nightmare at QX. Simple things…like, it had only one set of nav lights (that constantly burnt out). Terrible MEL manual, and a German company that didn’t see any reason to work with a launch customer.

There’s a reason why it lasted only a short time out west.
 
SurferLucas said:
I don’t know if I’d go for “amazing”…if could have been. Absolutely smashing flight deck, fast, went high, etc.

However, it was a nightmare at QX. Simple things…like, it had only one set of nav lights (that constantly burnt out). Terrible MEL manual, and a German company that didn’t see any reason to work with a launch customer.

There’s a reason why it lasted only a short time out west.
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I would say from a pilot perspective, it was amazing. My only complaint was the lack of an APU, but I loved flying it. It was a perfect 121 cherry popping plane.
 
guywhoflies said:
I would say from a pilot perspective, it was amazing. My only complaint was the lack of an APU, but I loved flying it. It was a perfect 121 cherry popping plane.
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I thought they had APUs. I could have sworn I used to hear PSA's with an APU running whilst I was sweating my balls off in a dark blue painted SAAB.
 
I am sure I am alone in this but I truly hate how aircraft manufacturers announce, and roll out an aircraft based on new engine technology that basically doesn't exist yet. Stop rolling out new airplanes without the engines on!
 
ERfly said:
I thought they had APUs. I could have sworn I used to hear PSA's with an APU running whilst I was sweating my balls off in a dark blue painted SAAB.
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The old MX tails didn’t have APUs. Unless Vision Airlines took them out (which wouldn’t surprise me).

It may have been an option like the dash 8.
 
SurferLucas said:
I don’t know if I’d go for “amazing”…if could have been. Absolutely smashing flight deck, fast, went high, etc.

However, it was a nightmare at QX. Simple things…like, it had only one set of nav lights (that constantly burnt out). Terrible MEL manual, and a German company that didn’t see any reason to work with a launch customer.

There’s a reason why it lasted only a short time out west.
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The irony of the 328s fall out of favor, is that the Air Force purchased it specifically to be a low visibility tactical air movement capability.

It’s built on the inside with bus style seats so you can pack an entire SF ODA team in it with their big boxes of kit and fly into an airport where you don’t part an airplane that screams “US Air Force is here!”

Now that it doesn’t blend, it’s effectively doing exactly that because nobody is fooled by the no livery plane full of guys that all shop at 5.11 and Eddie Bauer.
 
I’ve seen a couple of the C-146s down around Eglin. All I was told was that they went “to South America a lot”. Kinda like the all white L-100s that we fueled at CEW.
 
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