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Ei ATR

  • 26-09-2015 6:29am
    #1
    adam88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭


    So had my first experience on a ATR, interior was a bit shabby but all in all grand experience, loads of leg room compared to a Ryanair flight.

    One question I have is while taxing the aircraft seemed to be going very fast when compared the taxing speed of a 737


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  • #2
    Teebor15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Teebor15


    Your're sitting much closer to the ground in an ATR so the perception of speed will seem faster. Also a B737 might have to go slower when negoiating tight taxiways at smaller airports. The distance between the nose wheel and main gear on a B737 is longer than an ATR so when a 737 makes a 90 degree turn it may almost come to a stop while the nose wheel makes the turn before picking up speed again whilst an ATR could corner like a F1 racing car.


  • #3
    adam88
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    Teebor15 wrote: »
    Your're sitting much closer to the ground in an ATR so the perception of speed will seem faster. Also a B737 might have to go slower when negoiating tight taxiways at smaller airports. The distance between the nose wheel and main gear on a B737 is longer than an ATR so when a 737 makes a 90 degree turn it may almost come to a stop while the nose wheel makes the turn before picking up speed again whilst an ATR could corner like a F1 racing car.

    You can say that again, landed in Dublin but defo felt that it was going a lot faster than a 737


  • #4
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Would St. Fintan be the oldest in the Aer Lingus fleet? I flew on it a couple of years ago


  • #5
    Jamie2k9
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    Were you on the new 600 series or the older ones, should explain the interior been slightly different.


  • #6
    Plane Fan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Plane Fan


    I was going to ask the same Question were you on 72-200 or 72-600? as the interiors differ


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  • #7
    adam88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭adam88


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Were you on the new 600 series or the older ones, should explain the interior been slightly different.

    I don't know, it was white on the outside , I know I know , and didn't have that big cargo space in the front


  • #8
    Plane Fan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Plane Fan


    Yeah that's the older one (ATR72-200)


  • #9
    eatmyshorts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 821 ✭✭✭eatmyshorts


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Would St. Fintan be the oldest in the Aer Lingus fleet? I flew on it a couple of years ago

    They're not in the Aer Lingus fleet. They're Stobart aircraft.


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