Only a little addition: the switch in flight, power levers near flight idle and weight on wheels causes spoilers to deploy once all wheels are on the ground during landing. They will remain deployed until the switch is taken to taxi.

The 200s and 300s do not have the switch because they do not have ground mode operation of the flight spoilers. No spoilers deploy on landing in those airplanes.

I agree. I used to fly the Dash as well, and it's true that it has the ability to go from clean and 200 to configured and Ref+10 in no more than a couple minutes. I think all former Dash Drivers will miss it.

I remember when I went through Dash ground school, they told us that we might get comments over the radio about this one. I never did, but apparently there have been a couple worried radio calls from other pilots who didn't know about it already.

They told us that maintenance was known to paint "[mainline carrier] sucks" underneath them, too. I never heard anything about that, either. :cool:

Heck, the CRJ-700 can come down like a bag of hammers, too, as long as you can get to at least Flaps 20. The -400 does a little better because you can also slow it so much (like 105 knots when light). When you hear the flight attendant walking around on the cockpit door, you're steep enough.

Turbo-props rock...... I have about 1000 hours in the ATR and that thing could take 210 to the to intercepting the GS and rock and roll.....

When I was a newbi herc driver I did my first overhead assault from 10,000... yes 10,000....down initial at 200.... power off until NTS..... decelerate...flaps ...gear... full flaps...pitch down and hold 125..... keep your spacing ....ONE full 360 turn to final.... and full stop to the assault strip.... 65 tons... stopping on 3000' of dirt or asphalt. vsi's sometimes in excess of 3000-4000fpm....

TURBO-PROPS ROCK!!!!

yea, I'm a Dash guy for PDT and am based out of LGA, do that approach all the time...that approach is really fun once you know how to really handle the plane, it's probably one of my favorite actually

Yep i had a Spirit guy tell me that my " WING BOARDS WHERE UP" .;)

That's cute guys.. but I have to say im pretty partial to the 1900's performance. We rarely carry more than 5 people, so we can stop in like 1500', climb steady 190kts at 2.5k fpm or better. As much as I hate swinging the door and everything else equated with the Beech- its a performer.

I will say that I probably get more props (excuse the pun) from the mainline guys i jumpseat with, more often than not they built their time in beech 99's, or early 1900s.

Might transition to the Dash 8-400 in Nov though, looking forward to that.

I saw u guys (PDT) landing at LGA today around 12:45-13:00... whoever did the landing, it was the nicest landing I've ever seen with the dash, esp with those stiff legs!