Thread: What's it like to fly the CRJ?
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Old 04-08-2014, 08:03 PM
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kfahmi
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Originally Posted by PotatoChip View Post
You're not dreaming. At MTOW (53,000) an initial pitch attitude of 10° - 12° is standard, followed by about 3000'/minute shallowing to 2000'/minute by 10,000ft. Where it really begins to struggle is FL200 and up. On a warm day at FL250, 500'-700'/minute is the norm up to FL310.
Yikes!

Thanks for the info. I was just curious. Explains why it seems that we barely made it to cruising altitude on our SFO-SLC route before it was time to descend again.

What do they call it again? Climb Restricted Jet?
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