I think what makes it more fun is what we, as tprops get asked to do. I have only been flying the tprop for a couple months but several times I have been asked to do things the jets just couldn't do. The other day I was asked to perform S-turns for spacing then maintain 190 till 5 mile final. On the next approach, I was asked to slow to approach speed as soon as possible to facilitate additional departures. So I slowed to about 110 (ref in the Dash-8 100 is normally around 95). It is just a versatile aircraft. Another story had me set up for a straight in approach and around 4-500ft was asked if I could accept a circle. No problem in the dash. I still had plenty of time to plan my circle.



Another thing I love about the dash is I still fly instruments, not glass. I figure I will spend the later years in my career flying glass so I might as well create a great foundation on steam gauges. I normally look at my charts every flight where my friends on the CRJ just opened his low/high enroute charts for the first time yesterday and he has been there for almost a year. I still have to figure out how to hold cause the plane doesn't do it for me. Its fun for me. Other people laugh at you and say you aren't real pilots and the flying public, including many pilots, think they are unsafe and you can't change that. But, after they paid out the money and have no other option to get to their destination, they will still get on the airplane. As oil goes up, I just keep thinking job security...job security.

Oh, and max rpm on the dash-8 100/300 is 1212. Climb is 1050, and cruise is 900.