Originally Posted by
AV8N101
Good Info...
Be sure to watch out on those "cold and light" days too. When you make that climb sooner, rather than later to the "float'n fix (altitude)"...the FMS will from time to time get confused and try to fly an "intercept to fix" radial (turn the wrong way) instead of making a direct turn to the first "hard" fix on the SID. Not nearly as common on the E145's unless the load is very light or with the strong x-winds that ERJF15 mentioned, but have seen this more than once when fly'n the few E135's that pass thru DFW (not to mention, a couple of times on the E140's too).
Remember...be safe out there, and verify it before y'all fly it! 
AV8N101
The a/p on the crj does a really nice job intercepting and tracking the "fms course" in white needles so I have not seen a problem like the one you're describing. However once, I departed for MEM and was pretty light and therefore airborne pretty quickly and we realized the a/p was coupled to the wrong f/d. So we hit the XFR button and it started a sharp turn the wrong way. That got us a phone call and an asap report. But other than that, the "hands-off" approach seems to work fine.