Originally Posted by
Lalo37
I've never really understood this argument of the RJ being faster so it's harder to fly in that sense. The RJ was ridiculously easy to fly when compared to the EMB-120. Last time I checked, we all had to do less than 250 below 10000' so when you are the busiest, you are also going the slowest. The only thing you had to remember was on takeoff, if given a level off below ten, pull the "thrust levers" back. Not that difficult. Comparing the RJ to a Emb-120 is no comparison at all. RJ is easy, Brasilia is hard....................regardless of the speed...........you are only going faster above 10000'.
I guess the Bro is much faster than the Dash then, we couldn't even go 250 in the Dash, our highest VMO was 242. And we rarely went that fast. Sometimes approach would slow us up so much that we used to joke that their next call would be "Piedmont XXX, Charlotte Approach, maintain 180kts, you'll be following an A321 that just left Baltimore." I do remember that things went a lot faster form my point of view in the CRJ than they did in the Dash, especially within 20 miles of the airport. But like I said, I never flew the Bro, so I'm probably way off base with my comparison. Still, T-Props are fun to fly, and I'm glad I flew one.