[Closed] Turboprops - whose flown on one?

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I last flew on one from Hull to Holland. Like being in a washing machine in terms of noise and vibration, though it didn't make my clothes noticeably cleaner.

Much like any other plane tbh.

A viscount many years ago - no differnt as I remeber

over to Jersey and between the channel islands and france a few times back in the days of Dan Air.

Not that different to a jet, really. They tend to be smaller so you get more buffeting if it's windy.

The only time I've ever been really scared was on one of these, twice in two days.

The first time was taking off from Jersey towards Guernsey when it dropped below the cliff level at the end of the runway shortly after takeoff when the wind dropped.

The other was flying from St Malo to Jersey the followign night when I was immediately behind the pilot watching him wrestle with the stick to try and keep it flying straight. I'd have offered to hold the co-pilots stick (I was that close) to help out but didn't want to distract him. He was sweating a bit when we landed.

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F50 from City recently. Love it!
Many times in a BN Islander or a Fat Albert. Fun!

Err, it's just a plane. Flown on loads (Argosy, Viscount, F27 and others) and don't recall any issues. Why do you ask?

A Hercules, bloody noisy, but not really a function of having turbo-props.

When the railway line between London and Manchester was regularly in bits, it became common to use them to fly down to meetings in the City.

Never found it very problematic TBH.

Fly on a Q300 quite regularly, great little aircraft.

Another Erm....

I've flown laods of times on Cessna's. no problems what so ever..

Yep lucky/unlucky enough to have flown a Tucano

Regularly end up on a turbo going from LBA to Glasgow.

As said above civilian TP tend to be smaller hence 'washing machine' 'buffeted' comments above.

Used to fly on Fokker 50s regularly. Expect a lot of noise and pray for light winds. Also pray that the person in the adjacent seat isn't too fat.

On the plus side I'm told they can land on a hankerchief in an emergency.

People die flying on turboprops 😈

noisyer and they don't get an air mask popping down when they go wrong.. (as you shouldn't need one)

regularly make use of Flybe's Dash 8 Q400's from Southampton

Of noise and boredom (people die)

A little Cessna many years ago. What was it like? Small, uncomfortable and a bit noisy.
Hercules are ace, I can remember getting up for a piss in the middle of the night at an ex-girlfriend's house and looking at dozens of them on the tarmac and in hangars. AWESOME.

travelled paris-nantes on one in france, jumped out of one in cumbria, leaned out of the back of one in wiltshire. Kind of fun, passenger jet planes are a bit boring really aren't they? Wouldn't wanna do a long flight in a prop plane mind.

oh yeah the air france one was a bit rickety, I was sat at the back and we seemed to start on a side runway, halfway through take off we turned onto the main runway and I swear I could see the fuselage bend.

Yup, to and from Ireland earlier this year. Noisy.

Just curious as to whether it felt different due to buffeting etc

I'm not the best flyer

Takatakataka

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A great view from the "Drop Officers" window

I've been on them a few times. I'm also not the best flier but I thought there was little difference other than them being a bit noisier.

Leeds-Bradford to Aberdeen & back c1997. Not noticeably more uncomfortable than a small jet TBH, but alarming when you hit turbulence when turning into the final approach. Never been so glad to touch down as that time

Just use ear defenders to cover your 'non-specific, compressed audio' player earphones and the trip will fly by 😉

Last time was a [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72 ]ATR72[/url] between Penang and Phuket. Was fine, if noisy. Bigger worry was that my window seat was directly alongside the prop and wondering quite what the consequences of a blade failing would be...

yep, loads. they use them as puddle jumpers around the bahamas. Noiser? yep, I think it's down to the props trying to beat the air into submission combined with the fact that many are high wing configuration so the noise is generated closer to the cabin and not shielded by the wing.

Watch out for the small ones, they often don't have toilets on board. Taxiing from the ramp in Miami and I have an urge which develops into a desperate need for a poo. Was seriously thinking of chucking all the luggage out of the curtained baggage area and hiding in there with a carrier bag. Emerging before the other 15 passengers would not have been fun! Possibly the most unconfortable hour of my life. Ran like the wind to the terminal in Marsh Harbour when we landed for an experience that I assume to be similar to picolax 😯

Shetlands to Wick to Edinburgh with Loganair, slower than a week in the jail, even the birds were flying faster.
Bit worrying when the pilot comes out and serves lunch.

The drop off of the cliff on take off at Wick was a bit scary in a prop as well.

piston engined props def slower, noiser then turboprop..

apart from private stuff are there any commercial piston engine services in the UK?

Used to use one Southampton > Brussels regularly. Bit noisy, but I enjoyed it, felt like 'proper' flying.

Flown on a Fokker 50. Sounds different, obviously, but I don't remember it being much noisier than yer standard jet.

We had VERY heavy winds flying into Reyjavik over the sea. Wings were all over the shop, real heart in mouth approach, pilot set it down beautifully though, very smooth. I reckon they get a bit of practice at that sort of thing up there!

I used to go from London City to Antwerp with VLM on a Fokker F50 (I think it was called).

Quite a nice plane, really. Bit noisier, perhaps but I like them.

Ah, the Trislander... A war canoe with wings.

Many is the time I have been crammed into the back of one of those on the way to or from Alderney, being blown around the sky, usually with some sort of cargo on my lap.

Them were the days.

A fair amount in the US and Canada. Big ones quite noisy, small ones fun when landing on gravel strips.

I do remember flying to Ireland in one a bit like Druidh shows, in 1964...

Best and most fun flights by far however in helicopters (turbine) and floatplanes (radial)

....even the birds were flying faster.

Air Fungus

The only airline with outside toilets iirc.

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The flight only lasted 2 minutes (accordiong to the timetable, but I timed it at 4minutes 11seconds), but it was terribky exciting and we got certificates and miniatures of Highland Park.
OH flatly refused to get back on it and we had to catch the ferry back to Mainland.

EDIT - also flown in one of these
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They are slow. Fast enough to stay up but typically 40% slower than a jet. I've flown BA to Edinburgh and USAir from Chicago to rhinelander. I felt a bit vulnerable for the period over lake Michigan ! I couldn't take my eyes of the prop's, willing them to keep spinning. But I'm an anxious idiot who's crap in the air.

Flew a lot in one of these back in the day - noise and the smell of puke was bad enough that we used to get out half way 😉

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flew on an azerbaijan airways prop aircraft last month. was noisy, but bose headphones made it pleasant 🙂

I tried to find out what kind, had a look on their website, and couldn't find it, but did find this

http://www.azal.az/en/services-blacklist/

awesome

ETA : it was probably an ATR 42

flown on one to the isle of man a few times from glasgow airport.

was noisy mainly.

only other thing is looking out the window and seeing the blades right beside you and thinking ... it that lets go, it'll make a mess of me.

Flew a lot in one of these back in the day - noise and the smell of puke was bad enough that we used to get out half way

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What a fantastic photo!

Turboprops - whose flown on one?

Why do you ask?

Smudger, Trenchard Lines, perhaps?

Flown a few times from London City Airport (Docklands)
Was very quiet with a roller coaster type Take off and landing experience
at the London City Airport 😉

I didn't notice the plane much here, distracted by other things:

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ATP about 1987, Manchester to Jersey. Made in Woodford.
They did have a few landing problems a few years down the line, as in landing without the front gear, so coming to a horrible standstill with many sparks a flying.

A bit bumpy but fun all the same

One of these

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It was alright, just noisy and slow

Yeah, I've flown in quite a few. They're just a normal plane until the weather gets bad. Then it can be a funny experience. Not because they're a turboprop but because they're so small. Flying up to Aberdeen one time it was like being on a roller coaster, terrifying. The attendant dealing out the sick bags had one of those trys you used to see in old cinemas round her neck.

Plus when it's windy you can feel one rotor grab the air a lot better than the other and the plane will crab sideways.

Landing at Jersey in heavy wind is an experience too. After the plane was on the runway and we were making a very sharp and fast turn, the pilot comes on the intercom and says 'and if you look to your right you'll see the plane that didn't make this turn last week' and sure enough, there was an identical plane to ours wrapped up in the perimeter fence.

Flew on a Dornier 328 once. 3 passengers in total, so outnumbered by the crew. They made us all sit near the wings for take-off and landing, but we could sit anywhere else for the rest of the flight. Was rather windy iirc.

Pretty sure i've been on Fokker 50 too. KLM always used to give me the seat under the wing 👿 where there's no place for a 6ft2 person to stand, and the overhead locker is about the size of a letterbox.

Prefer the Embraer regional jets... with 1+2 seating, choose the correct row, seat A, and you get bonus leg room, window+aisle seat all in one 🙂

Lots and regularly for me over the years. Currently Fly Dash planes Manchester to Hannover. Before that South African Airways Johannesburg to Swaziland, not sure what they were but only 18 seats. Then at other times BMI flights on other stuff as well.

They're pretty noisy and it's harder to get away from the noise than in a jet. As mentioned they also suffer more in wind too.

Been on the Aurigny ATRs before, and spent a bit of time on REx SAABs down here in Oz. Sure they seem a bit noisier, and are smaller etc, but no real problems.

Richmars, Lukla to Kathmandu?, Twin Otter? That must be a pretty old pic. When I was there in 2002 it was tarmacced (thank god). Even so, the landing was eventful.

Johnny P
Yes, 1992, (didn't realise it was that old!). Landing like a controlled crash, take-off like a fair ground ride.

It's just a plane. Better not to dwell on whatever technology is preventing it from plummeting to earth.

I flew in one with TransCongo Airlines a couple of years ago, Brazzaville to Point Noire. I actually felt a helluva lot safer than my collegues who had to fly in a rusty 727 the night before....

Dash8, Beech 200 King Air....why do you ask?

Aurigny Tri-Landers are fun, especially when the landing in cross winds and the Pilot has to look over his shoulder to see the Runway...

ahhhh, one just taken off now.

loudest air craft that takes off from Guernsey!

Twin Otter landing and taking off in Saba was an experience...

Flash

nope - Brize/aldershot/various other places. never heard of trenchard lines till I googled it - I was out by 93.

I Toured to Shetland once with loganair or whatever they are called these days. The Nose wheel fell off at Glasgow and cast were put on a second plane. On arrival in shetland the airport had been struck by lightning and the runway lights were out. They had to circle until the generator/back up system relit the runway.

Then one of cast went through a fire door by mistake and caused a security incident.

Ah the good old days of flying in the Hercules I will never forget chasing landrovers by Goose green in the Falklands ( you had to be on the flight deck to believe it) Crazy Days 😯

I used to ride in pilatus porters, the flight was cold and windy when someone opened the door 2.5 miles up.
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AF are now code-sharing with Flybe from Manchester to Paris so I get to fly in Flybe's small turboprop from time to time. It's okay, quite nice really.

Last Saturday they lost my suitcase though.

The Nose wheel fell off at Glasgow and cast were put on a second plane.

Logan is part of Flybe..

landed at Edinburgh from Southampton on a flybe Dash 8 and we had to be towed off the end runway as the plane lost nose wheel control... doh!

flown on lots of turboprops but never on a piston engined prop plane.. DC-3 would be cool to go on

A couple of times...

Flew up to Mt Cook in New Zealand in a tiny 4 seater. I jumped out of that one.

The flight from La Paz to the Bolivian jungle scrapes over the high Andes and lands on a dirt strip. That was an interesting experience...

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to look at these
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was awesome after about 45mins of staring at the ground as the pilot banked us round and round looking at lines on the ground it was a major effort not to empty the contents of my stomach!

Regularly used to crawl between Hannover and Manchester on an ATP. Hugely enlivened once when an engine went out just as they brought round lunch. We did come did quick! The Captain said that he'd rather do those sort of acrobatics in a turboprop than a jet, but I can't remember why now.

Worst flight i ever had was in a Herc, 9 hours from Belfast to Cyprus, overnight stop then 8 hours from Cyprus to Nairobi the following day. Bored doesn't even begin to describe it.

Been in plenty, mostly F50s to Holland and Belgium but lots of Islanders out to Islay when I was a kid and a particularly long and uppy downy flight to Shetland when we had to stay below the clods due to storms half way there. Did get to go in a Herc when I was little, visiting uncle in Darwin where he was RAAF base commander so we flew Cathay to Hong Kong and he had us collected there in a C130, I loved it but I was only 9 full helmet and MAE West distinctly remember parents hated it and made us fly to Sydney for a "proper" flight back to uk. I think I'd side with my dad on the Herc flight now tbh.

No real problem had plenty of hairy moments in jets only disconcerting thing with some turbos is when just after taking off they throttle right back and the plane goes so quiet for a moment you think the engines have stopped but never had one fall out of the sky while I've been on them and I have a couple of million miles between flying blue, miles and more and admiral's club.