heck yeah,, "flagship xxxx turn right heading 090 cleared visual approach 18R" i about crapped my pants when i pushed the little red button and heard the CAVALRY CHARGE!!!!

can remember making an RJ do a little bounce coming into DC on my second day of IOE...first time i had flown the airplane and she was light, and had a nice lil' wind. was...interesting. didn't think you could make thirty some thousand odd pounds of aluminum behave like a 152.

Have fun, and welcome to the line.

My first landing in the RJ the IOE captain said,

"Holy crap, that was right in the middle . . . . of the left side!"

sounds fun m8

i cant wait til im there

Just wait until you've got some insane crosswinds and are looking at the runway through the captain's direct vision window... I had that on my last leg to fly while on IOE into MSP from CLE. Not to mention an icy runway with nonstellar braking action reported! :D The ERJ sure does handle those crosswind landings nicely though.

Ah... gotta love this job!

Good luck with the rest of IOE!! Trust me, it only gets easier.

Amen to that. My first leg on IOE was at night in driving rain gusty wind....

Hang in there...IOE is a lot of fun!!

So... the second day of IOE included landing with winds 270 @ 22 G 28 on rwy 34 (which wasnt as bad as I thought it would be) and shutting down an IDG on the way back. My IP asked me if I knew of any portion of my paperwork where he could include "bad luck."

On my last IOE assignment before getting signed off, we had to divert twice. Next day we flew a Cat II into IAH, continued on to BTR where the winds were 25 gusting to 40 in torrential rain. The Check Airman just smiled at me like a cheshire cat and said "Ain't you glad this is your leg?". :D

Yeah- fun stuff. Surprisingly, it feels easier than flying a Seminole after a while. :p