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Car Won't Crank said:
You probably flew on a De Havilland Q400, the second gen of the Dash 8 basically. Afaik the engines are the same, but the prop blade design might be different. The Q only comes from some active NVH cancellation in the cabin. I bet some parts of the cabin are isolated by some bushings of some sort designed to soak of certain frequencies from the props.
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I just checked what it looked like, and you seem to be spot on! I believe there were only seventy-ish people on-board, so the seating capacity fits. I wouldn't know anything about the noise cancellation design of the plane itself, but Wikipedia says that it is slightly quieter than its previous counterpart, so probably they have engine brushings to further help the active vibration/noise cancelling?
 
Last time I flew, I was wedged in between two whales and could barely move as their rolls of fat threatened to engulf and suffocate me. """""People""""" that obese should be forced to buy an entire row so no one has to sit next to their stinky fat asses. That or stick them in the cargo hold.
 
Wingnut said:
Had a flight a few months ago, and had my first in person Karen experience.

Was in a small regional hopper plane to a bigger airport, it only seats about 80 people and the overhead bins are about 1/2 the size of a standard overhead. Karen brought her suitcase that looked like it barely would've fit in the regular sized overhead bin on the plane and it very obviously wouldn't fit. One of the ladies in the seat near her mentions that she'll have to put a tag on it and have them do an à la carte checked bag.

In case you've never used an airline that has this service, it's basically a free checked bag that you get to drop off/pick up at the jetway. It's pretty awesome, especially when you're going from a small airport to one much bigger like LAX so you don't have to mess with baggage claim and lost/stolen luggage.

Anyway, she gave the snappiest most sneering "No! I'm not letting them take my bag!" I've ever heard to the woman. I don't know how all Karens manage to look and sound the same, but they have to be made in a factory to be so uniform. She made enough of a fuss that she eventually convinced the poor flight attendant babysitting her to buckle her suitcase into one of the empty seats up in first class.

TL;DR~ Karen does Karen things and her suitcase gets a better seat in the plane than me for free.
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Only thing worse then a Karen is a Karen getting her way. Just makes you want to beat the shit out of them
 
North America said:
I just checked what it looked like, and you seem to be spot on! I believe there were only seventy-ish people on-board, so the seating capacity fits. I wouldn't know anything about the noise cancellation design of the plane itself, but Wikipedia says that it is slightly quieter than its previous counterpart, so probably they have engine brushings to further help the active vibration/noise cancelling?
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Possibly, I don't know the details but I wouldn't be surprised of Pratt and Whiteney added some small modifications to the engines in the Q400 to attenuate NVH transmitted through the fuselage.
 
I once had an 8 hour layover in Minneapolis. I wasn't even old enough to drink yet.

On the return flight, it was Frankfurt-Detroit-O'hare. The plane fron Detroit to O'hare had to be restarted several times and we ended up sitting on the tarmac with the plane off for several hours around 1 AM.
 
I'll do two stories here. One I'm behind the stick one I'm riding.

So I was coming back from a dive trip I'm the Bahamas I was stupid and still (iirc) class G in my nitrox table. Got on flying fine and middle seat between these two slamming cute girls. I was single and early 20s. Well, my inner ear and the nitrox hit me before we pressurized.

I spent the entire flight blowing snot rockets coughing and crying. It was definitely not fun.

So for my own shit show. I'm finishing hours to get my fly boy papers. In a Piper super cub just took off smooth as it gets lovely day. WONK. Lights go off instruments all die and there's a nice big dent on the cowl. Bird strike.

Call the tower tell em what happened and I need to get out of the sky, thankfully it's a small airport only one plane pushed back to taxi and one to a holding pattern. Land safe invite the ATC out for drinks and take a few weeks off before I got back in. Glad I did tho. My instructor told me that I handled it like a pro and how bird strikes are super dangerous.
 
Went on a class trip to europe in high school, and the return trip involved a layover in Paris that should have been no problem.

However, the first plane got stuck on the tarmac for a while so we were late getting to cdg and didn't make the connecting flight.

The airline said there were a few seats left on a flight home later that evening, but the rest of us would have to stay overnight, so a girl ripped a few pages out of her notebook and we drew names randomly to pick who got to go on the early flight. I was one of them.

It was pretty uneventful after that. But then the day we went back to school, all the kids who stayed behind kept bragging that the airline put them in a really nice hotel, paid for a fancy dinner, and the flight home was mostly empty so they got to spread out and have entire rows to themselves

I've never been so jealous of losers
 
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