Originally Posted by chazbird

Metro, the weed eater, sewer pipe, etc. etc.

Weed eater term came from strange transient impulses to the hydraulic steering, say during the takeoff or landing roll...made the pilot look silly since there was no way to prove it happened by itself.

Sewer pipe, well it is a small round tube....

The brakes are crap. Static run-up? Good luck staying in one place.

Sort of spindly gear with small high pressure tires which was fun on wet, or snowy and of course wind swept runways.

It has the infamous SAS system (stick pusher). Went off on me on short final, it pushed at up to 260 lbs for 7 minutes, couldn't disable it.

If loaded it would pitch hunt above FL190.

The ailerons were never relocated out further on the Metro III from the shorter wing-span of the II because they didn't want to bother, thus leading to the high roll effort.

Very annoying pitch trim in motion beeper. MEL stickers fit perfectly over the small speakers.

To its benefit:
It really is only annoying loud on the ground, and then just outside, not inside.

It would do 280 kts and carry 19 passengers 400 nm easy with good reserves and burn something like 450 lbs an hour above FL220. Good 7.0 PSI.

It was sturdy as all get out, maybe over built. The San Antonio people would brag that when one crashed in afield the wings stayed on after hitting something. Not what I wanted to hear, I'd rather have the wings frangible. Fun to fly, in its way. Once you got 100 hours in it and understood it, it was fun to fly and certainly was a great stick skills builder.

Never flew the 1900, so I just don't know how groovy it is or isn't.