Originally Posted by
SKNPilot
This doesn't make any sense. The dash8 is an airplane as well. None of you started out flying a CRJ or ERJ, you went from a Piper Cherokee, Cessna 172 to a CRJ or ERJ, did you have problems with speed, Mach? No! you received training to fly the thing. You're just undermining CommutAir pilots.
I wouldn't worry about it, the ERJ is as close as you can get to the feeling of flying a tprop as a jet. It's relatively light, slows down easy, the thrust lever response is almost like a tprop. A good tip, when in doubt of descent planning, just get down.