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Originally Posted by shrsailplanes
this doesn’t make sense. If the CRJ department prepares you well for line flying why are ERJ FO’s failing so badly as CRJ captains that they are no longer being permitted upgrade in that airplane?
For most ERJ newhires, it’s their first jet and because the automation will do everything for you, they never build those habits that are essential to flying a jet with less automation—like watching your airspeed like a hawk and descent planning. To be fair, the ERJ has its own gotchas that one must learn to be watchful for, like VNAV trying to screw you on certain arrivals if you haven’t set it up exactly right.