Comment from a driver. In good weather a very pleasant little machine. However; in any sort of icing, not nice at all. I got airborne from Leeds/Bradford one dark night, en-route to Belfast. Having got to about FL50, and no chance of any higher, decided to divert to Manchester. The de-ice that was fitted was working fine, but ice was building up rapidly on the struts and undercarriage sponsons (and probably on the flat-plate underside, which was becoming more flat-plate as the speed decayed). The FO was more experienced on type than I was, so I left him flying it. The ILS glideslope was about all the beast could manage, and in the final stages I had effectively take-off power on. Having had a nice little worry about when our decaying airspeed was going to meet our increasing stall speed, I came out with a case of alopecia nervosa. Yep, a few weeks later big chunks of my hair came out. All grown back now; just a receding hairline these days.
Yes, in good weather, which I think it was designed for, very pleasant.