Oops, forgot the picture.

Less than 20 passengers doesn’t require a flight attendant. That is why so many aircraft were built with the bizarrely low passenger capacity of 19 seats.

As for meals, unless you brought your own there was never a meal service. 🙂

Originally posted by EGNM
great shots there! Esp the E145LR

Actually that picture is of the EMB-145XR which is the new long range version. New engines and more fuel. It’s noticable differences from the ER/LR are the addition of winglets, strakes and the enlarged skid plate for the center fuel tank. It’s starting to look more like the 1900D with every version. 🙂 I’ve flown it a couple of times so far. For the passengers they added addition padding in the seat to ease your bum on the longer flights. It makes for a very nice ride.

Continental Express was the launch customer for the new version. This picture was taken in Kansas City after the XR had been online for only a few weeks.

Originally posted by mongu
firstly, what is a stabilon? I think I understood the rest of your points, but I never heard of a stabilon before.

I never had either until I flew the 1900D. A stabilon is nothing more than the small wings attached to the empenage. You can see them on the the one air-2-air photo that shows the complete aircraft. They’re located right behind the cargo door.

Second, whenever I’ve flown on a 1900D (a lot, but only with two airlines so possibly not representative), the flight deck has been open to the main cabin (well, sometimes a curtain is pulled, but not always). Is this the norm in the USA?

Yes. I always liked to give the passengers the opportunity to watch what goes on up front. The passengers always seemed to appreciate looking up front. Plus, since there isn’t a crew member in the back we always liked have the opportunity to look in the back at anytime. We never wanted anything to go on in the back that we didn’t know about. ie a passenger disturbance.

It also had its downside. Nothing scares the crap out of you more than concentrating on shooting an approach in a windy snow storm to have some passenger poke his head up front and tap you on the shoulder. “Hey, we there yet?” I also remember being subjected to frequent flashes of light during a night flight. After about the 10th flash we started to get worried that something was amiss. We didn’t figure out what it was until a deplaning passenger thanked us for the great flight and said he had the pictures to prove it. 😀

Here’s a transcript of the CVR and some other details of the Flight 90.

http://www.stormloader.com/chrisk757/af90special.html

Ok, another ground shot taken out the window.

A winter storm had started hitting the field about 30 minutes prior. It was a heavy wet snow so the line for the deice trucks was long and the holdover time was short. This guy pulled out of the GA area, waited in line for takeoff for about 20 minutes or so as those with impending holdover time expirations had priority and then blasted off into the weather. No deice/anti-ice solution was applied and I’m pretty sure the Piper Cherokee (or is it an Arrow?) isn’t certified for known icing. What an idiot.

Flying out of a storm.

Another close up.