Recently, Steven P. McNicoll posted:

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
...

The dash 8-200 isn't that large an airplane. If the sport jet can't
handle it's wake 2 minutes after takeoff, how is it going to share
airspace with a 777 five minutes ahead?


FAAO 7110.65 defines large aircraft as those of more than 41,000
pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight up to 255,000 pounds.
Appendix A of that order puts the DHC-8/200 in the large weight
class. The type certificate data sheet for the DHC-8 series issued
by the UK CAA gives the maximum take-off weight of the DHC-8 -200
series as 36,300 pounds.

Interesting. MTO weight 41,000 pounds, yet classed as "L"... any notions
as to why there would be a discrepancy of this kind?

Neil