I fly these things in real life. The EICAS pages look darn good. The hydraulic quantity does give me a laugh though. 
 

I might buy this to see how it fairs against its real world counterpart.

10 minutes ago, ahsmatt7 said:

I fly these things in real life. The EICAS pages look darn good. The hydraulic quantity does give me a laugh though. 
 

I might buy this to see how it fairs against its real world counterpart.

Yes, that page does look to be a work in progress. I’m going to suggest to Hans that he model the reduction in the quantity in the three reservoirs that occurs when the systems are pressurized. 

@ahsmatt7 and @JRBarrett

Great to have you guys on top of this one! 

7 hours ago, ahsmatt7 said:

I might buy this to see how it fairs against its real world counterpart.

Yup, me too. I wonder if they'll model the ten minute faff it takes to connect the tow bar to a CRJ when it is cold? 🤣

They'll also need to make all the cabin crew really hot on the SAS versions, because they nearly always are on the real ones!

Hopefully at some point you'll be able to get a 'cab view' in Pushback Express. Like the Embraer 145 and ATR, these things are quite tricky to push out; being so low to the ground you can't see under them to help you steer the rear wheels where you want them, so it's a good challenge to get them right on the centreline on a pushback, especially at night. 

Given that will not have a PMDG or FSL for a very long time, this could be perfect and does look amazing. I will have to put aside what I think of there support and some of there appalling argent mods to hopefully enjoy this.

Yes we can open a door by ourselfs it seems

3 hours ago, Chock said:

Yup, me too. I wonder if they'll model the ten minute faff it takes to connect the tow bar to a CRJ when it is cold? 🤣

Difficult under the best of circumstances without three persons. One on either side of the nose wheels to slide the pins into the axles, and a third at the end of the tow bar to wiggle it side to side to get everything to line up. When the axle sockets are cold-soaked - things tend to not fit well!

I wish people here would stop using the PMDG/FSL level aircraft reference here in every thread who gives a word not allowed but P3D users. Just go there and enjoy it while we enjoy what we have here.

Edited December 13, 20205 yr by jbdbow1970

20 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Wonder if the HUD will be collimated?

I asked. Got no answer.

My answer is, highly unlikely.

12 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

Yes, that page does look to be a work in progress. I’m going to suggest to Hans that he model the reduction in the quantity in the three reservoirs that occurs when the systems are pressurized. 

I just like how the quantity was off the charts and the associated percentage. I’m sure it will get fixed. 

1 hour ago, JRBarrett said:

Difficult under the best of circumstances without three persons. One on either side of the nose wheels to slide the pins into the axles, and a third at the end of the tow bar to wiggle it side to side to get everything to line up. When the axle sockets are cold-soaked - things tend to not fit well!

I know you can do it on your own if you straddle the bar and it is properly lined up, but it takes practice, same with the Embraer 145, both of them are easier to fit with two people doing it!

Both those aeroplanes need a specific belt loader too because it comes up to the rear cargo hold and gets right near the engine nacelle when you raise the belt, so you need a belt which can retract the safety rails back a long way so they don't clang into the port engine nacelle. We actually had a separate sign off rule for people before they could put a belt on one of those two aeroplane types because of the risk of hitting the engine pod when driving up to them. The good thing about doing those planes though was that they were pretty quick to load and unload, there was usually only one baggage cart required, so we could generally get one of them all done in just a few minutes.

All of this means that for flight simmers who like to simulate the entire ground procedure of refuelling, unloading arriving bags and passengers and then onloading the new bags and passengers for departure, doing a proper briefing and all the checklists, this is a good choice of aeroplane, because even if you do it all realistically, it doesn't take very long, probably as quick as twenty minutes for a spin. Then the flight times are short as well, so you get some quick practice at doing an entire flight with a proper take off and landing in maybe as little as 45 minutes. Thus for those whose time for simming is limited, you could easily simulate an entire flight completely realistically in about an hour and a half with one of these little regional jets.

2 minutes ago, Chock said:

Thus for those whose time for simming is limited, you could easily simulate an entire flight completely realistically in about an hour and a half with one of these little regional jets.

With the P3D version, I once simulated an entire day’s operation of one specific Delta CRJ-900. I got the complete schedule for the tail number off of Flight Radar 24. First flight of the day departed KDTW at 0600 local, and every flight ended back at KDTW before departing to the next airport. 7 total legs before the aircraft finished the day at a remote station at 2200 local. 5 different airports. (Two consecutive legs went out and back to/from the same airport twice). No single leg was longer than 90 minutes. As you said, each turn was about 20 minutes. I managed to do the entire rotation without having to restart the sim once.

I did this on a day when the real weather in the northeastern and central US was VFR everywhere.  All bets would have been off adhering to an on-time schedule if the weather had been solid IFR, or in winter when deicing would have been required.

I’ve often thought of simulating a pilot’s entire day, but doing the aircraft’s entire day in one step further!

Great looking aircraft for MSFS2020, but I still want a more modern ERJ-175/195. Probably will never happen!

It seems Aerosoft is obsessed with creating the same aircraft over and over.

Darryl

17 hours ago, ahsmatt7 said:

I fly these things in real life. The EICAS pages look darn good. The hydraulic quantity does give me a laugh though. 
 

I might buy this to see how it fairs against its real world counterpart.

We would like it if you did! And then review it for us here... see if it is worth it from a realism perspective.