Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

I don’t fly CRJs so I am reaching out to someone who does. I was curious what kind of climb gradient a 200 can achieve off a 5200’ field elevation, on say, an 80° day, at gross?

can anyone help?

Im on an airport board and we are considering paying for a departure procedure. The airport is served by OO. When we called the company to ask what kind of improvement they needed to not be weight restricted they said they couldn’t tell us until after we had it built (over simplified version of the conversation). Obviously, we don’t want to spend this kind of money without some knowledge of what it will gain us in reliability.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Currently the airport has a textual departure that requires a climb of 420’ per NM to 7400’.

Our rough assessment from a recent feasibility study shows an improvement of 396’ per NM to 6100’.

Is that improvement significant?