Originally Posted by
RJ4LIFE
Heavy RJ? That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. But then again they don't really have regional jets in the UAE so the folks at Emirates wouldn't really understand the similarities and differences between say a E145 and an E170.
Many of the ME airlines require (and count only) time in types that are 50k pounds or above, at least for your, say, turbine PIC. A "heavy" RJ, then, is one with such characteristics. Emirates well understands what an RJ is, and knows which is which. I understand that many try to pass EMB145 time off as "50,000 pounds". It doesn't work.
