Good radar testl: Tilt it all the way down and line one of the range rings up to the terrain. You'll see all four colors plus if it follows the range ring it's level. Otherwise it's tilted to the side a bit (works better in flat areas).

Also tilting the radar to -0.6 you should see that terrain line at about your height AGL /1000. So if you are at 35,000 and the ground is about 1,000 MSL then you should see a nice solid line at 34 miles ahead.

For the FMS when you enter a custom fix you can add a /then a custom name as well. For example: SWL/-15/TOD. Will add a fix called TOD 15 miles short of SWL as opposed to SWL01. It will also work with ROC190/HDP350/YOU.

 

You could always insert BEER, DRINK or SLEEP as the name of the airport you are overnighting at.

 

Flying by fuel flow in a crj???

Nice!

Why don't you amp it up by covering the airspeed tape (and speed trend) on the pfd if you're going to fly it old style???

 

Not sure if you have flown the CRJ but all the fancy carats for thrust and whatnot are only useful for T/O and climb numbers. Cruise and arrival are the numbers most people are using and FF is a great way to be in the ballpark since the plane will give you the FF numbers required for the right speed and N1 will vary. Works pretty well. I have always seen this as the way to get it close.

 

this is all fine and dandy, but how bout some useful information....-200 cargo compartment can hold 7,457.7 cans of beer (by volume not weight).

 

For gods sake, whatever you do, dont turn off the flight director!!!!! The plane will not fly without little pink bars leading you around by the nose. Seriously, the plane will fall out of the sky the second you remove the FD.

Oh yeah, dont forget to turn the HYD pumps on before you drop the gear if you are dropping the gear before you put the flaps down. Princess will beeeotch at ya if ya forget.

 

I was shown the fuel flow technique on my first IOE trip, surprisingly it worked and you were nearly dead nuts at 300kts at 1500pph/e. It does get you in the right ballpark for fine tuning speed in cruise and descent.

I found most of the older captains who have flown 5+ types with my airline would use this technique since it worked so well on the older steam gauge aircraft. On the flip-side, all of the instructor pilots I have talked to or flown with agree that if Bombardier wanted you to fly the plane by FF then they would have made the numbers bigger on ED1.

I was told that a new pilot was taught the FF method on IOE and used it all through the first year. During their PC the FF gauge was inop on the sim and since they didn't know how to fly any other way, they failed the PC.

 

I am going to insert the sarcasm tag for both........ Although it was an issue at times to drop the gear between 230-250 without 3B running. Now... not an issue!

It's always fun when you turn to someone like Mooney and tell him you will be flying "naked" without the flight director or AP......

 

Flying FF is a technique.

So is using pitch mode when you climb thru 10k to transition to climb speed.

Climbing in speed mode or flight level change mode works great. I always laughed at pilots that would quit flying the speed/flight level change mode and go to vertical speed mode "because we're supposed to be flying at least 500 feet per minute, or we have to report this to atc."

If they just waited a few more seconds (while in speed mode) the 490 fpm climb rate would go back up to 700 or so, and then maybe back down to 490...and then back up to 700....

As for flying with the fd and ap:

You don't need to, nor do you impress me by hand flying from 1,000 feet up to cruise. You should give the plane to the automation and look outside for ga aircraft that are topping the class b airspace.

If you want to impress, wait till you're in imc and disconnect on base leg...

 

I wish I had read this yesterday. We had this last night after push in DEN. CA ended up calling MX and we did the "Ctrl + Alt + Delete" for the Anti-Skid CB. I'll remember this for next time.

Thanks.




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