Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Why were you uncomfortable going to FL370?
Was it a "fear of the unknown" because you had never been to the max "capped" ceiling of the plane before, or was it because the captain climbed when you felt the airplane simply didn't have the performance (climb weight & speed) to get up there?
Do you have any idea what your weight & ISA temps were, as well as the mach when you started the climb & when you leveled off? What did you ultimately accelerate to after leveling off?
I don't ask to pick on you, I'm genuinely curious.
Its been a hair over 2 years since I've been in a CRJ cockpit, but don't most/all airlines have 1.3G charts up there?
At FL370 in a 200 in summer, you really don't need to be trying to outclimb convective activity.
Regardless of their mach # in the climb, if it was constant, their TAS was decreasing. Sounds like the Captain was experimenting.
Al