CRJ200 limited to FL240???

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01-17-2009 | 10:19 AM

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RAHPilot5

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

This one is really weird...

Cruising at FL340 late yesterday center comes on and asks do we need to descend to FL240.

Ummm...no, not that we are aware of?

Then center says that all CRJ200's operated by these companies (lists most of them) are now restricted to FL240 due to extreme cold at altitude...

We were in relatively warm air, nothing too cold for the flaps. We sent a text to company, no response. Started the descent (we were about there anyway) and landed normally.

No emails, haven't heard anything about this...anyone know what's up?

1 of the pilots had to pee and the other pilot was too lazy to put on his/her oxygen mask so they descended below FL250

NOT SAYING I HAVE DONE THIS

01-17-2009 | 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by RAHPilot5

1 of the pilots had to pee and the other pilot was too lazy to put on his/her oxygen mask so they descended below FL250

NOT SAYING I HAVE DONE THIS

Quality.

01-17-2009 | 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

Right, but we knew about that and were not really that close to -60C. But what does that have to with FL240 and when did ATC start dictating our operating procedures? Was there some kind of FAA emergency order? You'd think they would have told us by now.

Your first post said they ASKED you if you had to.
Did they ask you, or tell you?
If they asked, they were probably trying to do some planning ahead for traffic, or other reasons.
He probably threw in companies names just to let you know that's why he was asking you?

01-17-2009 | 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by OscarOscar

Delta won't have to cut any 50 seat flying, the Feds are going to A/D the -200 out of existence!

And that is the truth!!

01-17-2009 | 06:16 PM

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Would that necessary be a bad thing???

Well if your paycheck depends on it, I'd say for sure!

01-17-2009 | 07:17 PM

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Avroman

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Any chance we can ban any airplane that was designed/built in Canada that doesn't have a DHC as its initail designation to it?......
Long live BAE....

01-17-2009 | 08:35 PM

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Coming from a guy who's never flown the -200, but what do the flaps fail below -60?

01-17-2009 | 09:52 PM

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FL240? Sounds like something to do with single pack ops

01-18-2009 | 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by cgtpilot

Would that necessary be a bad thing???

Not in my book. The CRJ200's perfomance flat out stinks!

However, the jobs that would be lost as a result would stink

01-18-2009 | 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by BoilerWings

Coming from a guy who's never flown the -200, but what do the flaps fail below -60?

The actuating mechanism gets too cold. This can cause the flaps to fail to deploy on approach, or to stick at an intermediate setting. Or even worse, they can deploy fully but then fail to retract on a go-around. But we already have AD's and procedures to deal with that.