Dc-9 Regs.
Nov 5, 2011, 8:30 pm
#2
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,797
Nov 6, 2011, 9:16 am
#4
Join Date: Mar 2008
Programs: DL-Pyrite Medallion
Posts: 314
Nov 6, 2011, 9:23 am
#5
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,797
Nov 6, 2011, 10:34 am
#6
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: LAX/BOS/HKG/AMS/SFO...hmm, I need a life.
Programs: United1K, AA ExPlAAt, DL MM/Gold, Hilton Diamond, Avis First
Posts: 13,316
Nov 6, 2011, 11:10 am
#7
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: West of CLE
Programs: Delta DM/3 MM; Hertz PC; National EE; Amtrak GR; Bonvoy Silver; Via Rail Préférence
Posts: 5,384
Old yes but well maintained and built like tanks. I agree that with the new mini jets (ERJ175/CR9/etc) the gas hog 9's will go soon but there is something about turning final in one of those birds that makes you really feel like you are flying. They "sweep" into a final turn like nothing else in the sky. I will miss them when they are gone...but I miss Avro's so that's just me
I was on N769NC ATL-BHM. I was sitting in Row 1, which is about 10-12 feet behind the flight deck door (closets and the galley are in between), and saw all the pre-digital age instruments on the flight deck.
Brought back memories of North Central, which was one of two carriers that served my home airports, MKG and GRR, back in the 1960s
Nov 6, 2011, 1:44 pm
#8
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SDF
Programs: DL:360/DM/6 MMer; Bonvoy: Lifetime Titanium 10+M pts, 3100+ nights;
Posts: 1,441
Nov 6, 2011, 2:42 pm
#9
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,797
Eventually those CJR200's will be older and will need to be replaced as well with a more modern jet in the future.
Nov 6, 2011, 2:47 pm
#10
Join Date: Nov 2010
Programs: WN peon (was A+), IHG Plat Hilton HHonors Gold DL SkyPesos PM (still a peon) US Chmn, Hawaiian Haole
Posts: 1,166
Old yes but well maintained and built like tanks. I agree that with the new mini jets (ERJ175/CR9/etc) the gas hog 9's will go soon but there is something about turning final in one of those birds that makes you really feel like you are flying. They "sweep" into a final turn like nothing else in the sky. I will miss them when they are gone...but I miss Avro's so that's just me
Nov 6, 2011, 6:14 pm
#12
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Northwoods
Programs: DL DM, Hilton Honors, Marriott Rewards, Hertz #1 Gold
Posts: 705
The DC-9s are indeed built like tanks. But without flight management systems and current day avionics they provide a high workload environment for the crew on a complicated arrival and approach with lots of fixes and crossing restrictions. I can promise you the pilot not flying is tuning radios (nav and comm) like a mad man while the aviator on the controls is yanking & banking and working the throttles like few others in the sky these days. I imagine the crews of these old birds won't mind seeing them off to the graveyard.
Nov 6, 2011, 8:03 pm
#13
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver, Colorado
Programs: DEN: WN or UA, AA LT Gold, VIA Preference Preferred
Posts: 1,550
CRJ200s are outstanding only in the amount of pain they inflict on their pasengers. Most uncomfortable plane in the skies unless you're four feet tall. I'm glad DL is finally seeing the light and parking some of them. I'll take a 35 year old DC9-50 over a CRJ any day.