Gear up Shut up
Thanks for saying what I really wanted to say, but, in a foolish attempt to be nice, didn't!!
Any aircraft that has to go back to the factory for a three month "re-manufacture" because it wasn't built strongly enough in the first place, isn't for me.
I predict that the Q400 will have major issues before it is ten years old.
I used to position on them a lot, and I used to find my "outside" foot would go numb with the constant buzzing vibration coming from the cabin side mouldings.
The explanation was that this was because the props were out of balance. It would be solved, we were told, when all the props had a serious balancing. That worked for about two weeks, then they needed doing again - but of course that seldom happened as the line engineers were to busy fixing other problems.
Then there were the days when we would push back, only to be told that everything was about to go "dark", as all the electrics had to be turned off to reset some errant computer. Wonderful stuff.
It may be over-powered, but in every other way, it is a dog.