Can someone throw some figures into the melee please.
Dash 8 Q400:
Cruise fuel flow per hour:
Total burn over a 1 hour sector:
Time to climb roughtly to 25thou:
TAS at 25thou:
The 146 would burn 2000-2100kgs per hour at 400kts TAS.
Over an hour flight we'll show a total burn of about 2150kgs.
It takes a -100 17 or 18 minutes to TOC, a -300 about half a hour sometimes!
Not the most fuel efficient, but a damn sight better than the 3000kgs a 737-500 would burn.
Also, if there's anyone on it here, what about the E195 and the E145 too?