Ever flown an airplane you just don't like?

[Buzo]

The MD-88. I liked the DC-9, but no the MD series. We'll see how the 717 is shortly.

 

[Roger Roger]

You can almost do well enough just in the summer with the right gig to not have to work the rest of the year. In those airplanes on floats.

Or you could work for us and fly those planes on floats year round and still not make enough money.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

At the airline I work for on all rnav DPs autopilot must be engaged at 1000 agl. Lame.

That's very lame.

 

[Wolfy]

Stinson 108. Flew one from California to Florida and was happy to never get in again. Don't like the control feel on whatever 60's Mooney I flew, did like the cabin size. But after 4 hours in an Extra 300, everything else is a joke.

 

[bunk22]

Yeah, the COD (C-2A Greyhound or Thunder Pig) and it flew as bad as it looked. It had 4,600shp per motor with two big ass props that shook the plane to death. I hear the new 8 blades make things better.

 

[dasleben]

Are you guys required to automate your RNAV DPs?

Yes, and I generally support that. Case in point, Nagoya, Japan (depiction on page 2): https://charts.aero/proxy/japan/301701

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Yes, and I generally support that. Case in point, Nagoya, Japan (depiction on page 2): https://charts.aero/proxy/japan/301701

Hmph. Wake me up when we get there.

 

[dasleben]

Hmph. Wake me up when we get there.

It pays the bills.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

It pays the bills.

Well, I guess if the choice comes down to that...

 

[CLTflyer]

the Liberty XL2.. waste of space in my logbook. And our school has 5

 

[Autothrust Blue]

The MD-88. I liked the DC-9, but no the MD series. We'll see how the 717 is shortly.

"Boeing builds airplanes; Douglas builds character!"

 

[Tommay85]

"Boeing builds airplanes; Swearigen builds character!"

*ftfy

 

[thepotato232]

I'm currently flying an Astra SP and G-100 (basically same thing) and honestly can't stand the things. I thought I'd warm up to it eventually, but I've been in it over 18 months and almost 400 hours and still don't like it.

Hey, I'm flying the Galaxy / G-200 these days. They doubled the size of the Astra fuselage without seeing the need to make the wings or the tail any bigger. Poor thing eats miles of runway, stumbles around in turbulence like the town drunk, needs pneumatic rudder boost for V1 cuts, second-segment climb performance is nil, the potable water lines crack and leak onto electronics in the back, they painted the boots silver so they'd look like a hot leading-edge wing, you need a hand on the tiller for your takeoff roll, the APU's loud enough to crack pavement, it likes to land like the ground owes it money...

It tries so hard to be a real airplane, though. And it's got a nice cabin for a midsize.

 

[Area 5150]

Man, certain paper airplanes really give me the shats........

One faulty crease or fold in the paper, it's a rock, at that point.
I really can't talk to y'all about it...............

 

[Pépé le Pilot]

Never liked the 172, but I must say I adore the A340 even though it is so idiotically underpowered, once it gets going it's a really nice place to be.

 

[derg]

Any Cessna smallter than a 172.

Felt like there should have been a kid a few hundred feet below the aircraft with a kit string.

 

[JayAre]

The metro

 

[Tommay85]

The metro

 

[SeanD]

Any Cessna smallter than a 172.

Felt like there should have been a kid a few hundred feet below the aircraft with a kit string.

You would have loved the Diamond DA20. "Hey, what are you doing?" Im trying to pull out this wedgy cause by these weird seats. "Uh, dont do that in here"

 

[dasleben]

Any Cessna smallter than a 172.

Felt like there should have been a kid a few hundred feet below the aircraft with a kit string.

I dunno, I flew a Grumman AA1 for a little while, which was sweeeeeet.