No more DC-3 flights in the UK!

[MrRooney]

Hang on, you're not under the impression there'll be no more DC3 flights at all in this country are you? Even if this worst comes to worst and this one does wind up being grounded as a result of this passenger ruling let's not forget the BBMF have one, and that covers a far wider area than the AA one.

Plus the one that operates out of Liverpool, although it doesn't do passenger flights it still does a few airshow's during the year.

[C]

An outfit like Air Atlantique could probably go nonprofit and require a signed waiver for any pax, but that doesn't imply a rosy future for them.  

Thankfully for them they have their other daily business with their DC-3s to fall back on, such as radar and environmental contracts...

[Hagar]

Thankfully for them they have their other daily business with their DC-3s to fall back on, such as radar and environmental contracts...

I think they lost the environmental contract some years ago. The Classic Flight DC-3 is the only one still operational. AFAIK

[C]

Thankfully for them they have their other daily business with their DC-3s to fall back on, such as radar and environmental contracts...

I think they lost the environmental contract some years ago. The Classic Flight DC-3 is the only one still operational. AFAIK

I'm fairly sure they still get a fair bit of work - G-ANAF was recently repainted in a fetching new scheme for it Thales contract work:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Consul/CVN2.jpg

You're right IIRC about the environmental work though. Mind you, they still get other bits and pieces, such as film and TV work.

[Ivan]

[quote] But the slides... that's another matter. Seems crazy, though- I've never heard of anyone being injured exiting a Gooney in an emergency, but plenty of people have been hurt going down those slides...

[expat]

But the slides... that's another matter. Seems crazy, though- I've never heard of anyone being injured exiting a Gooney in an emergency, but plenty of people have been hurt going down those slides...  ::)

If your doors are close enough to the ground you dont need slides. Thats why the CRJ9 has a weird stance (door height the same as the small ones)

The CRJ (family) does not slides because the doors are also the entry and exit steps. What it does have is a problem to open said doors when it is sitting on it's belly.

Matt