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Originally Posted by Yabadaba (Post 569727)

Remember who is flying the Q and for how long though. Lynx started 15 months ago and is under Chap 11. Colgan started a year ago and hasn't had a chance to negotiate yet. I am sure both will have much better pay scales in two years.
Horizon has been at it for a while and have better pay than most RJ 700's.

Ok, mabye im missing somthing here, Lynx is hiring, according to their website, but they are in chap 11??? Or do I have the wrong Lynx. (the one out of Denver under Frontier).

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Originally Posted by TPROP4ever (Post 569860)

Ok, mabye im missing somthing here, Lynx is hiring, according to their website, but they are in chap 11??? Or do I have the wrong Lynx. (the one out of Denver under Frontier).

I don't think Lynx is in Chap 11 I think its parent company is.

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Originally Posted by CaptKrunch (Post 569863)

I don't think Lynx is in Chap 11 I think its parent company is.

Gotcha, caught me off guard when I read that...thanks

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Originally Posted by Jetpipe22 (Post 569418)

You're forgetting the main drawback of the "Q", IT GOES SLOW AS HELL. I'll take my jet thanks.

Compared to a CRJ it is slow as hell but only up at cruise and not by a whole lot, maybe 50 knots or so indicated. That is a lot of course but once we hit 10k in the terminal environment there is nothing a jet can do that the Q cant.

For a jet it is very slow but it is also nearly 60+ knots faster than most competing props.

I think we can pass the citation 1 and 2...thats gotta be worth something right?

The missions that the Q400 and most turboprops were designed for do not require a 450KTAS cruise speed. It doesn't go that high, so its not getting in anyone's way at cruise. It climbs quickly so it can reach its cruising speed in short amount of time and its only doing routes like EWR-BUF. Calling it slow as hell because its not as fast as a CRJ is ignorant. It's not a CRJ...its a Q400.

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Originally Posted by CaptKrunch (Post 570090)

The key is to wear them backwards to make sure other pilots doing the same KNOW I fly "THE 9"

LOL!!!! The "nine".......

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Originally Posted by CaptKrunch (Post 570090)

Other people shine thier wings and iron their eppies to pick up chicks? Admitedly not to walmart but sometimes to Kmart or target. The key is to wear them backwards to make sure other pilots doing the same KNOW I fly "THE 9"

A real 9 will pick you up at the bone yard when you deposit your last CRJ :)

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Originally Posted by Dougdrvr (Post 570217)

A real 9 will pick you up at the bone yard when you deposit your last CRJ :)

Oh yeah, a great piont. I fly "The 2" lol. I think my Toyota will be in service longer than this thing. SJS has run amuck.

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Originally Posted by flight0813 (Post 570769)

Oh yeah, a great piont. I fly "The 2" lol. I think my Toyota will be in service longer than this thing. SJS has run amuck.

If your talking about toyota the company then I agree. I laugh at the coments of poeople who think the 200 is going away tomarrow. There may be alot less of them but the 200 has its place just like the Q400 and "the 9" whichever "9" you are thinking of.

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Originally Posted by Yabadaba (Post 569727)

I wouldn't bank too much on Colgan's Union Guys getting anything done for their pilot group. Hope I'm wrong, but Colgan Managment has already staffed the Q400, so what is Colgan Management's incentive to offer their pilot's a decent contract with respectable compensation?

Most of those Colgan ALPA guys couldn't sign up to fly the Q400 fast enough, while at the same time pushing for a drive to get ALPA in hopes of better work rules, QOL, and compensation. If that's not hypocracy, then I don't know what is.

50 Seat RJ pay to fly a 74 Seat aircraft is an insult, however I don't have a problem with the guys who fly the Q. I only have a problem with the guys who complain about the pay yet still are more than willing to fly it, time to grow a backbone or shut your yap...take your pick.