Originally Posted by
soon2bfo
\As far as flying goes the autopilot in the CRJ 200 is crap, but they fixed it on the 7's and 9's. It commands a 15 degree pitch up when you bug 200 and are going 175 at 10 degrees, then comes all the way down to 2.5 degrees to try to compensate for the amazing slowing trend, then back to 15 up as you shoot through 200... ugh not that I have ever done that...
Same autopilot, the reason it doesn't pitch down as much is the 700/900 have more thrust, the large pitch adjustment isn't necessary...that was annoying in the 200. I liked that the ERJ had more visibility from the cockpit, but I felt it was kinda cramped otherwise (at least from the JS).