Nothing beats an open-cockpit. Period. Stearman's, Experimental's, Ultralights, you get the picture.

Can't comment on the Turboprops, as I've never had the privilege to fly one (hopefully that will change, with an upgrade on the Brasilia on the horizon), but I have flown both the CRJ (all three variants) and the JungleJet. Although the CRJ is a much more solidly-built plane, and more of what a Jet should be, it flies like crap. The lousy artificial-feel makes me long for the EMB-145, with straight cables and pulleys to the tail. There is nothing like trimming the plane up and watching it, hands-off, fly a perfect ILS to the ground. I'll never be able to fly the CRJ like I could the ERJ...

That said, once I get over the lousy flying of the CRJ, I enjoy flying it more - it does so much more up front then the ERJ, with nice, crisp displays which makes instrument flying more fun. I also get much more variety with SkyWest...In two weeks I can see the entire country, from the Atlantic to the Midwest, to the Mountain flying in the Rockies, to the West Coast and Pacific Northwest. When all is said and done I'd rather get paid to do that than fly a prop in and out of some lousy airports LoL. Of course, the Brasilia will be the best of both worlds and I can't wait!