Define a High Performace Turbo Prop?
 

Hi!

When I look around at different job offers on the web, some of them require hours on a jet or a High Performance Turbo Prop.

So my question to you guys is:


How do we define a High Performance Turbo Prop?????

Don't know how you would define one, but:

Bombardier Dash 8 - Q400.

If you want to, or have to fly a turbo prop, that is the best one I have flown.

EFIS screen flight deck. Powerful engines, superb props, great performance. Smooth and quiet (especially when the NVS system is working*), APU.

But with conventional yoke controls, so you actually learn how to fly before going onto FBW.

Try Flybe.


*The active noise and vibration reduction system consisting of a ring of weights in the fuselage which are activated to oppose propellor vibration. I think it was called NVS?

In EASA land its hidden in EU documentation which I will try and find.
Meanwhile anything in the below list with HPA (High Performance Aircraft) next to it or a full multi-pilot type rating is classed as High Performance.




https://easa.europa.eu/system/files/..._List_Acft.pdf






The FAA have a different definition.








In EASA there are not many twin turboprops that aren't HPA, examples of non HPA are DHC-6, D228, D028, Skyvan etc generally those that aren't pressurised and wont top 230kts.