Originally Posted by
Oberon
The MAN ALT switch in the upper right corner of the overhead panel iss in a great position to hit bump your head on while climbing in and out of the seat.
Amen to that! I've got a permanent indention in my skull from that! haha
Originally Posted by
vtx531
Does any of this really matter when the autopilot can barely intercept and track a localizer and randomly turns off, changes speed bug, etc?
George does an excellent job at everything. Very capable autopilot!!! He was my best friend, and never once let me down. In fact, the only A/P in a CRJ that let me down was on a 900, on more than one occasion. For some reason one channel of a yaw damp would continuously disconnect, on different airplanes too... Maybe it was bad karma following me or something! hah!
I don't know what you guys are complaining about. Until you get into some flying contraption built in Brazil (namely the 145), you have NO IDEA how good that 200 is. My God.... its like night and day. I've flown all 3 CRJ variants (2, 7, & 9) and the 200 was my favorite to fly hands down. The 700 was my favorite to go to work on... mainly due to the auto-bleeds, fadec (thank god), fire sys test, and GPS. How many times on the 200's do you get
CHECK POS? Of course most of Mesa's 200's didn't have GPS.
But I'm tellin ya, this Embraer is a PIECE OF CRAP compared to that wonderful little Canadair Barbie Jet. I'd take a Mesa 200 (with at least, oh say 5 MELs) any day over a top tier regional EMB 145.
Now, as far as the cockpit layout goes, I have always been very fond of it. I feel everything is in it's right place. They just fixed somethings on the 7 and 9 like the Fire Test and stuff that was just kind of ridiculous. As far as layout, nothing really changed, like I said - things were just "fine tuned" and condensed.