The EMB-145
 

I am going to be bidding the 145. My class date is next month. What is the overall opinion of the 145 from a pilot's perspective? What does it do great? What does it do not so great?

Thanks in advance for your time!

Google WSCOD.

I did..thanks for that lol

It’s a good airplane. Don’t expect amazing speed or performance, she’s a pug when it’s hot. The FMS leaves a lot to be desired, but it does the job. It’s a great first jet and an excellent plane to cut your teeth on. It handles well, the systems aren’t overly complex, and you’ll fly with a lot of great captains. Best of luck to you.

Thank you for your reply. Looking forward to flying with Envoy.

Fun to hand fly, lots of feedback coming through the yoke. Slow cruiser, terrible climber - you say "unable - performance" more than you ever thought you would in a jet. Big fat safety margins on everything, hard to kill yourself with it and tons of nice round easily memorized numbers in the book. Quite a few bizarre idiosyncracies. Cuts your power with no warning besides the flight instrument/EICAS indications pulling back when it needs the air for the automatic ice protection. Rickety and cheap construction, makes a lot of noise. FMS has most of what you'd need but is very poorly executed - inefficient, counterintuitive layout and functions hidden away in contexts that don't make sense. Make sure your big ol nuts aren't in the path of that yoke when your captain makes his first landing on IOE, or you're not going to have to worry about sending kids to college.

Overall I like it.

Funniest thing I have ever read on APC. Ever! :D

My biggest complaint about the EMB-145 isn't about the plane at all, its about the schedules. The 145 does most of the short hops for Envoy so you'll see a lot more 5 leg days and really low credit hour OT opportunities.

As stated 5 leg days can wear you down, but if they’re short legs and all through your home base they’re not bad, unless it’s go home day.

On the other hand we have way more of a variety in flying compared to the 175 and especially the CRJ. You’ll do flying through all 4 bases plus Boston and Charlotte. The airplane itself is definitely made for shorter legs, has lots of kinks and you’ll learn all the tricks on the line.

It’s not fast but overall it’s a solid airplane that’s very forgiving, can be flown almost 250 to the marker and has good landing performance. Pay attention to takeoff performance, especially when it’s warm. And don’t be surprised when it starts acting strange when it’s cold, or when the gpu is plugged in.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that but it wouldn't be fair to the jungle jet not to mention it. The flip side to not being able to climb is that the thing will fall out of the sky on command. Very reassuring when they leave you high as they often do.

So true with that airplane. It comes down like an anvil.

Some jets (like a heavy 321) can neither climb well, nor descend/slow down well.

Since this is an e jet talk, I've always been curious about the bicycle looking yoke. How do yall like it/hate it?

As far as shape goes, it does a pretty good job clearing the knees at least for general use (not aileron rolls), but makes it harder to be precise with roll inputs, though the plane is numb in the roll anyway because the ailerons are boosted.

Rolling left for CAs and rolling right for FOs is a bit awkward in strong wind landings but not too bad.

Also as said before it's a VERY forgiving airplane with a large envelope at altitude compared to the CRJ.

.58-.78 vs .74-.83 Mach at altitude
250-280 vs 270-310 in the climb

Disclaimer, some of these have probably changed since I last flew the WSCOD.

Whats not to love? It's loud and cramped in the cockpit. It's got DV windows, but don't open them. It's got thrust reversers, but don't use them. Be sure to make a pitch trim input on takeoff, or you can lock up the stabilizer. The NWS can have a mind of it's own. The FMS is like a first generation Garmin, that won't really prepare you for using any other FMS. in existence.

I've only had to declare three emergencies in my career, and all of them were in the 145, all resulted in landing with the masks and smoke goggles on.

Absolutly my least favorite of all the jet's I've flown in my life, I won't cry, even a little when the last one is turned into a beer can.

But thats just my opinion, and it's worth exactly what you paid for it. Bid whatever equipment and base will result in the best quality of life.

You ever bang a girl and actually split second consider not pulling out because it's so much fun?

That's what flying the 145 is like.

So your saying commit cuz it’s so fun!? Alright!

Its POS period. Cant wait to get off it.

You fly the 145?

C’mon. Haters gonna hate.
.78 almost, rear lav for the walk of shame, last generation avionics and FMS, no onboard WiFi.What’s not to like?!
As the salesman said to Clark Griswold, “ if you hate it now wait to you drive it!”
I keed I keed. But the yokes are cool 😎

If you believe the skit than yes.

Yes, Upgraded few months ago.

Nice! Congrats on the upgrade. Why aren’t you a fan of the 145?

I'll be honest, as a pax on the front left few seats, I love riding on it.

Because he’s a child of the 175 and hates having to work on an airplane that makes him work.

My go to meme for the 737, but since you brought it up..

https://i.imgur.com/3eua7cW.jpg

This is funny 😂😂😂

Work smarter...not harder you numbnuts.

This lol


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you think flying the slimbraer is hard work huh?

it's a POS in many ways but that it makes you work hard is not one of them.

What plane makes you work harder?

and

Work hard? No. However, for those who’ve become accustomed to Autothrottles for speed control and VNAV for path control, to suddenly have no autothrottles or VNAV means they have to actually control speed ON THEIR OWN and manage the descent ON THEIR OWN. Oh, the HORROR! 🙄

The good news is FMS programming takes less than a minute.

Learn to use the skill that your mommy and daddy paid for you degenerate.

MD-80, 727s, Dash 8s,


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Bunch of them basically.

I wouldn't even call it an FMS. Its an old GPS with 1990 technology garbage.

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It’s a graphing calculator with a bigger screen.

Sort of a bigger screen...