The only time we ever armed W/M on approach was if we would have been WAT limited on a missed approach but since our max landing weight was 40,000 lbs that would have been a rare occurrence. Mind you, this was the Fairchild built machine with RDa529 engines and not the Fokker aircraft.
Treat the old girl properly and she'd take you through anything.
Agreed. We operated at temperatures that sometimes dipped below -40 on the ground and the airplane always served us in good stead. Nordair ran the lateral DEW Line resupply out of Frobisher Bay with the Fairchild 227 for years, with the airplane never seeing the inside of a hangar for two weeks at a time. As for the RR Dart, the only thing it had trouble digesting was a tungsten steel shroud nut.
