The Q400 costs more than an RJ now so it wont be long before they are noy worth it. They seem to long for my liking. Here where I work Dash 8 -100S are having a problem staying serviceable. Infact so much so the Dash6S I fly bail them out of trouble many times. Yet the company in its wisdom has decided to get rid of the Otters and persist with there Dashs which are very old some have build dates in 1978
.
I have been told by certain C&t Captains that they are very suseptable to electrical problems as are the new Q400S have they sorted this out yet.
A mate of mine was instructing in China, at an Airline that has Q400s and 2 apprentice mechanics decided to do a full power ground run infront of a hangar. You guessed what happened next. It jumped the chocks
.One of the guys was seriously injured and a brand new Airplane Totalled.
Anyway Im just envious really I d give my left one to get a Type Rating
Regards
Sheep