All about the CRJ

[MarineGrunt]

Let's hear your tips/techniques/tricks to everyday flying on the CRJ200/700/900. While we're at it, include any common emergencies, flaws, or "interesting" experience. Anything from pitch and power settings to smoke in the cockpit.

At the risk of looking like a lame topic, I think it would be very valuable to have an educational thread, since we have a lot of low time new hires out there - plus, I am due to arrive home from an overseas deployment (flying a different aircraft) and I'd like to brush up on some stuff other than the books...

Fly safe!

 

[flyboyike]

The biggest challenge for me was getting used to the lawn dart approach profile, which, in my experience is, 2.5 deg nose down, 62-67% N1 and hold on to it until GPWS calls "twenty", then gently pull up to 1-1.5 deg nose up. Hold that until it settles.

 

[MarineGrunt]

^^^Yep! Been flying a heavy for the past few months and I'm going to have to really concentrate on that part! My best landings ("best" is all relative ) are the ones that I try to "pancake" as much as possible.

 

[BoilerUP]

The -200 lands better with a ten knot crosswind, IMO.

 

[bizzum]

* DING * EFIS COMP MON (and repeat every time you turn)

 

[n757st]

The biggest challenge for me was getting used to the lawn dart approach profile, which, in my experience is, 2.5 deg nose down, 62-67% N1 and hold on to it until GPWS calls "twenty", then gently pull up to 1-1.5 deg nose up. Hold that until it settles.

I am one of those reduce at 100 and idle by 50' starting to flare at 50. Will usually put it on the marks and will grease on... especially if you side load it a bit.

 

[flyboyike]

I am one of those reduce at 100 and idle by 50' starting to flare at 50. Will usually put it on the marks and will grease on... especially if you side load it a bit.

Hmmm....might be worth a shot.

 

[TOOL CRIB]

Be at VRef or slightly less over the runway at 100'. You'll actually land in the touchdown zone.

 

[EatinRamen]

I second that. It lands way better with a x-wind.

 

[Willy21]

Interesting Experience

FL370 over PUB, AC bus 1 failure, followed by AC esential bus failure. I know we are all told that when AC bus 1 is not powering the AC esentail bus auto transfer will allow AC bus 2 to power the AC esential bus. Didn't happen. The only thing we had was AC bus 2 and DC power from the tru on AC bus 2. Mx told us this was not possible, pic pulls out the cell phone and snaps a few photos of the electrics pages. There response was, "how did you do that?" To this day I have not been told why this happened.