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Originally Posted by Milesar  I have heard guys call the Dash-8 a flying roadblock... when you get behind them we usually get the "slow to 180" from ATC. Lots of room up front though, I jumped on one and was surprised at the size of the flight deck, even had nice little cup holders.
I heard that on the radio a while back  |
I fly the "megawhacker" which is the 400 and we are typically not of the roadblock variety. We are slower than a jet but today during cruise at FL200 and we were behind a CRJ and when center asked for speeds we were at 275 and they were at 300. They can certainly go faster but at the levels we fly at which is no higher than 250 we are keeping up with the guys that hang around that low.
It is a great airplane to fly, we climb at 230-250 KIAS up to the levels at 1500FPM and we can run the variety of climbs lower from 4000+FPM and a lower IAS to a 250IAS with a climb of 2000FPM.We typically cruise around 280 above 10K and around 250 at FL250 which gives a true airspeed of just under 370. We can fly to the outermarker at 230 and still be Vref +10 over the fence by pulling flight idle to 200 then throwing out gear and flaps. It has taken some getting used to by both the pilots and the controllers but typically below ten thousand and in the terminal environment we can meet any speed restriction ATC has for us whether that is fast or slow. It is built like a truck and flies very well although a bit heavy feeling in the roll rate because of the 93 foot wingspan.
We do not taxi feathered or taxi single engine. Unless I missed something in training we would not get very far with feathered engines.