Just be glad you left the chocks - my experience with that airplane was a flight completion rate of well below 70%. If I saw a Q400 for my commuter, or deadhead flight, I would start to get nervous about whether or not that thing would actually start up correctly and takeoff.I just dead headed on a Dash 8 Q400 turbo prop , which is a lot quieter than any piston engine plane , and my ears are still bothering me from the noise.
Noisy, slow, and unreliable. Quite the combination.