Originally Posted by
CBreezy
And your point is...? When that speed thing gets too low and you stall, it's not because your airplane can't perform like other airplanes. It's because you were reading the paper and quit paying attention. That has nothing to do with a different type. Should you not be allowed to fly at Max Gross Weight a trip after repo-ing an airplane because they handle differently?
Someone was speculating that the FAA wants PSA to not mix CRJ series due to some incident or series of incidents. If that crew had been flying something with better performance than a -200 and all of a sudden is paired with a -200 on a hot summer day, yeah I could see that potentially becoming a situational awareness issue. Where you forget which CRJ series you're operating reading the USA Today. Obviously that wasn't the sole cause, but the FAA has a history of knee-jerk reactions. Ask Skywest -200 operators what altitude they can climb up to.