No, it sucks in green needles when you are tracking a VOR. Had a deferred FMS on two long legs and I just put it in heading mode and did my own bracketing and tracking.

The CRJ cockpit is cramped and uncomfortable. I really liked the ERJ with the J-track seat rails. As far as flying goes the autopilot in the CRJ 200 is crap, but they fixed it on the 7's and 9's. It commands a 15 degree pitch up when you bug 200 and are going 175 at 10 degrees, then comes all the way down to 2.5 degrees to try to compensate for the amazing slowing trend, then back to 15 up as you shoot through 200... ugh not that I have ever done that... :D

I love that. I actually welcome short stops at intermediate altitudes to build up some steam before going for a higher altitude. I flew a heavy XR between EWR and CVG a few days back, and I think we got stopped at FL300 or so on our way up to FL360. By the time we got up near 0.80M, we got our climb to the final. Sure enough, crank that VS up to 3000fpm and she'll do that last 6000 ft. in a hurry, and without bleeding a whole lot of speed. :D

By the way, have any of you other XJT people seen paperwork recently showing the XRJ climb profile at 0.65M instead of 0.60? Not sure what the rationale was behind 0.60 to begin with, but if you get any slower than that the airplane becomes a dog at higher altitudes. Sucks!

What's Vmo in the XR?!? :confused:

I may have seen it once or twice.

FWIW, I flew with a hat captain a few weeks back between SAN and OMA. He insisted on a .60 climb up to FL370. That was fine and dandy, but when we got up to cruise it took us a LOOOOONG time to accelerate from .60 to .80. Not to mention that the low speed buffet chart showed we were too close for comfort from stall at our weight and altitude.

Our climb profiles kinda scare me sometimes...

CHQ's is 270/.56 all the way up!
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So is ours. However, I don't like ATC yelling at me so I rarely do it.

Hell, the EPs won't do it anyway. Those things are dogs.

Haha, you want to hear ATC yell at you? I have one word for you: PPAS (those of you out there know exactly what I mean)

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Wouldn't that be more of a flight director issue?

I hate that thing. I don't need to be "directed".