He works as a Dash 8 captain for Corvus. Two years ago he was flying a sled for Hageland.

I ran into a Corvus captain today and asked him his guess at the upgrade time. He said (and I'm paraphrasing here) "Five years and falling." Definitely not 10-20 years.

He said the elimination of the 1900Ds and the absorption of those crews into the Dash 8 stream has slowed down the rate of upgrades, but that affect (sp?) would pass soon.