ERJ vs CRJ
11-27-2007 | 10:10 AM
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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.
11-27-2007 | 10:40 AM
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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... 
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11-27-2007 | 11:09 AM
#23
Tuk er jerbs!
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From: B747 Left
I'll agree with the last poster.. it's ALL about energy management. Our profile calls for 290/.60 climb in the 145XR, but if you accelerate to 310+, and climb out at around that, you can maintain a much higher rate pretty much up to cruise. I was actually shown this by a guy who used to work for Embraer. Doesn't do much for fuel savings though....
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!
11-27-2007 | 02:33 PM
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From: I am the Captain now...
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!
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...
11-27-2007 | 06:15 PM
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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...
I hate that thing. I don't need to be "directed".
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