Originally Posted by
Saintly
Reliable.
Whats better: the F50 or Dash 8? Which Dash 8 are you referring to? 100, 200, 300 or 400?
If only the F50 was made more speaker + the engines it had (PW125B) it could of cruised up to 300 kts or more I reckon??
Funny you asked, my son just asked me the same thing today. I am about 14K hours in, with only 300 piston.
Turbo props: Learned a lot flying the B1900, but that was mostly due to its design flaws, and the maintenance budget where I flew..... Dash8/300 handled best, atrocious cockpit design. F50 incredible cockpit design, but had to manhandle it.
Light twins: Citation Bravo best for landing performance, best I did was take the exit right after the 1000' markers at around 1100' landing distance. CJ3 great for climb cruise&performance, 15 minutes to FL450, 800pph in cruise, great avionics with integrated Jepps and WSI. AC kept the plane frozen in Fla in the summer. Not awesome to land, no reversers, very high tire pressure in narrow tires with bad antiskid, not what you want landing on an ungrooved, wet runway, 60x3200 at night, with only edge lights, no approaches/vasi/papi, at night..... (yeah that operation was challenging too)
Now on the A320 for the last 11 years. Love the cockpit for comfort and design, but thrust levers should move, and not knowing what the other pilot is doing is a design flaw IMHO. About to move to the B737 or B757, new chapter, ask me again in few years..