Originally Posted by
Uplinker
The lack of an MDA bug on the altimeter instrumentation was extraordinary - you had to remember the figure ! Flybe fitted little plastic mechanical number counters on the glare-shield that you could set to display the MDA as a memory aid.
Don't know, but we could set either MDA or DH and it showed on the lower part either left/ right of the PDF.
Was 10 years on it and totally agree with the wipers, usually after t/o on the first leg and enough airstream they came to the upright position, where they stayed for the rest of the day. Not approved, but helped my ears and for icing the lower inner corner of the windscreen was the first indicator anyway. And in rain they were useless!
Otherways I loved to fly her, never let me down.
Occasionally unhinged doors, just know the trick to readjust them and you're good to go.
The APU could have been better, gave us some interesting times especially with remote de-icing where you had to shut down and no GPU available at position. Well, what can I say, we could start it again after all that TypeIV drained out after some waiting time 😉.