Originally Posted by
Martin_123
radios are rather simple on the q400 - you turn the knob and it's on, same goes for all the displays and everything.. If someone's intention is to steal the plane and crash it, I doubt they will follow normal flow and checklists - with this in mind, you could probably get it airborne within 5 minutes from cold and dark.
Longest thing with avionics is aligning AHARS or IRS for Nav and FMS setting for a flight plan.. If you are not bothered with that, the time it takes the screens to come up (although lots of info does not come up on the screens until the former items have run their alignment). There is of course... those standby instruments that of course do not need much time to warm up.