Originally Posted by
luke3
Never flew a CRJ but in the 145 you can easily get the air conditioning to shoot out ice pellets in the summer.
Well, yeah, if the APU is working. But the APU seems to fail a lot in the summer... or maybe I’m thinking of APU bleed leaks. In any case, I think I have a working APU for packs about half the time in July and August. There are pilots at my airline that change the way they bid in the summer because of it. There are mechanics at my airline that change the way they bid to reduce their exposure to the 145 because of it. Nobody wants the 145 in the summer. That said, my airline doesn’t fly the 200 so not saying the 200 is worse. If it is, man, that sucks.