Originally Posted by
flyfresno
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.
No you are not off base with your comparison. I just didn't explain it as well as I could have. Sorry. The Brasilia did 230-240 fairly "easily" in level flight (terminal area, low) with a lot of power. What I was trying to say was that in the CRJ, in the terminal area and below 10000' I found we flew pretty much the same speeds as when I was on the EMB. Range of 250 to 180 on the CRJ or 230 to 170 on the EMB. In my humble opinion that's not that much of a difference so I never really understood why some would say that the CRJ is harder to fly because of the "speed". Hope that's a bit more clear
