Originally Posted by
TheGreatChecko
Last time I had the pleasure of sharing a crew van with a QX RJ crew, all they did was B!tc# about the Q400. It got old quick...
Poor little feller! You gonna be ok? At least that seems a little more substantive than *****ing about somebody *****ing in a van...
The 400 is far less automated overall than the RJ (at least the 700). No auto fuel transfer, doesn't set loc courses automatically (that's huge!
, ALT SEL has to be manually selected in the 400 (***?), manual FADEC mode selections, etc... all of those are minor things, obviously, but when you add all the little extras together, the workload is higher in the Q. It's pretty obvious that the Q was 'dumbed down' to maintain a common type rating with the earlier Dashes.
I got pretty bored flying the CRJ, but that's fairly rare in the Q. My advice would be to look at the TRIPS and the LINES associated with each aircraft, and, if given the opportunity, choose on the basis of lifestyle.
Best of luck...