Hi Folks,

Personally - the FADEC without auto throttle was one of the reasons I enjoyed the old ERJ so much... Happy to have similar again...

Regards,
Scott 

27 minutes ago, scottb613 said:

Hi Folks,

Personally - the FADEC without auto throttle was one of the reasons I enjoyed the old ERJ so much... Happy to have similar again...

Regards,
Scott 

As long as you aren't flying with either of my Saitek throttles.  Linearity seems to be a foreign concept to them. 

Still, I consider the CRJ a must buy..

Ernie

7 minutes ago, airernie said:

As long as you aren't flying with either of my Saitek throttles.  Linearity seems to be a foreign concept to them. 

Still, I consider the CRJ a must buy..

Ernie

 

Hi Ernie,

Yeah - I haven't purchased yet but this is on my short list...

I've got CH Throttles and one thing I've noticed is they behave a lot better without using their proprietary control software (since Win10) - without using P3D for assignment  - instead using FSUIPC... Lessons learned from my experience with the FSW Lear 35A...

Regards,
Scott

Quick question.  Does PFPX export flight plans in the correct format for the Aerosoft CRJ?  Or, is there another app that will do the trick?  I don't mind manually entering them, but am interested in whether there's any automation here.

Thanks!

Update: I did what I should have done first, and searched the developer's support forum.  Indeed there is a provided PFPX profile for the CRJ.  Excellent!

17 minutes ago, dmiannay said:

Does PFPX export flight plans in the correct format for the Aerosoft CRJ?

Glad you asked this as I did not think of taking this into consideration.

1 minute ago, vc10man said:

Glad you asked this as I did not think of taking this into consideration.

Check the update I made to my post above... PFPX is covered!

As a matter of interest, what format does it use? The Aerosoft busses use the .flp format. Is it the same for the CRJ?

55 minutes ago, dmiannay said:

Check the update I made to my post above... PFPX is covered!

Thanks. Did not see when you posted. Great news.

3 hours ago, Chock said:

If the landing gear doesn't compress, everyone in the cabin will be killed by peanuts shooting about all over the place upon touchdown, especially those with a nut allergy.

Seriously though, these days aeroplanes have cameras all over them for the benefit of the passengers, but also the crew so they can check stuff out, so conceivably it might matter if there was a gear failure indication light or some such. On many aeroplanes, the gear goes through all kinds of turns and compressions and such in order to fold away, so it has to do the reverse of that when coming down and it would be handy to check it, which used to involve looking through an optical viewport in the cockpit floor on stuff like the B737.

I can think of a few examples where if the crew could have viewed the landing gear just after take off with a camera, as they can do on many aeroplanes these days, they might not have had a crash as a result of retracting gear with a fault, Nigeria Airways DC-8 Flight 2120 springs to mind, where incorrect inflation of the tires caused a burst of one tire on take off and the overheat of an adjacent one because it was carrying more of the load, which subsequently burst into flames, and was retracted whilst on fire.

Note that I stated: does the *virtual* pilot actually notice this effect of landing gear compression.  Of course real aircraft use shock absorbers on the landing gear, but I'm wondering what difference, if any, it makes in the *simulator*.

Thanks.

Dave

 

First 'proper' flight completed with no problems, having manually entered Liverpool to Châteauroux-Centre into the CDU which I got the P3D flight planner to map out (EGGP, HON, PEKOX, COWLY, WOD, MID, DRAKE, SITET, ETRAT, DVL, LGL, SORAP, BENAR, VANAD, AMB, BEVOL, LFLX). That's a swift 450 miles at a stately 29,500 feet and leisurely Mach .78, so it doesn't take long. I guesstimated the fuel necessary and ended up landing with a total of 30 percent left in the tanks, so for those of you used to Boeings and such, there are no probs learning to drive the thing, I never even looked at the manual so I don't know if that would have helped (will do at some point), I just figured it out from the cockpit since it is pretty much the same as every modern airliner in terms of avionics. It's easy to fly and land manually, I just knocked the autopilot off, flew the descent, SID and landing by hand from referencing what was on the PFD.

Arrival at LFLX:

4 hours ago, HighTowers said:

First impression for me was quite nice. Its unique, in alot of ways, but the principles are always the same with some variations.  Did a quick flight of about an hour CYVR-CYYC. Cockpit prep took a while as I got used to what needs to be set via the checklist on the EFB named "Dave" (Weird having your own electronic assistant be yourself lol) .

The FMC is quite extensive and I was pleasantly surprised to learn it very quickly. I was expecting the Q400 illogical mess that it is, but its quite similar to Boeing/Airbus logics with obviously some differences that are still easy to figure out. Didnt reference the manual for any FMC functions.  

The systems seem to have enough detail to satisfy. You wont get failures or anything at this price point, but its definitely reasonable amount. You will have to reference the tutorial or manual to set some things up though. I might suggest carrying a tad more fuel than planned and just use the APU. The diesel powered ground power is rather loud when using it and eventually gets annoying. 

The ground friction could be off or rather its the old FSX one being used. Must be temporary as I see an option to enable a tweak in the EFB but its disabled right now. Just had to use a hell of alot of power to get going. Once shes moving , taxiing is rather easy. As some have mentioned the climbout is just a speed mode using the CLB detents like Airbus. But cruise flight was finicky for me. Clearly my ol X52 throttle is quite noisy and is rather difficult to fine tune throttles to keep your speed. Jumped up and down alot despite a consistent crosswind. Descent is different altogether with just VNAV advisory. I didnt like the speed mode, so switched to using v/s and adjusted speed with throttles. The ND has a projected altitude arc at your current v/s. Things are quite busy in descent and into approach. Its no NGX or 777. Will keep you on your toes. My RNAV 17R approach didnt draw properly at all, so took over manually, and on final even though I was above Vapp I sank rather quickly. A little surprise, but clearly something to get used to its throttle and other characteristics. I will have to check with them to see if the bad draw is a bug. Occasionally misdraws happen in real aircraft too. so who knows. 

Overall this is something different than your NGX or even 320series buses and gives some interesting aspects of flying albeit with some learning curve of its systems. 

 

The ground friction 'tweak' simply enables the LUA script in FSUIPC that is already available.

As this fix is not available in P3D v4, its greyed out on the DAVE efb.

4 hours ago, vc10man said:

Thanks for that very explanatory write-up, Jim. Between you and Alan, you have made this a Buy for me.

So, the FADEC engines are more or less like the Airbus' then?

They are like Airbus only in that there are fixed detents for TOGA and climb mode, but the similarity ends there. The Airbus has true automatic thrust management in all phases of flight (I.e. Autothrottles), whereas the CRJ requires manual power adjustments in all flight phases EXCEPT climb.

In that regard it is similar to the Embraer ERJ 135 and 145 or the Cessna Citation 750.

Is there a way to hide the yokes? Ive clicked all over the place!

In case anyone is wondering, Simbrief briefings work with the CRJ 700/900. Also, in SimBrief, the flight plan can be exported using the Aerosoft Airbus setting. Since Little NavMap  supports the same Aerosoft flight plan format, one can also export a flight plan from LNM to the CRJ.

Just now, jabloomf1230 said:

In case anyone is wondering, Simbrief briefings work with the CRJ700/900. Also, in SimBrief, the flight plan can be exported using the Aerosoft Airbus setting. Since Little NavMap  supports the same Aerosoft flight plan format, one can also export a flight plan from LNM to the CRJ.

Fab news, Jay.