CRJ 200 climb performance in Summer

[ArcticFlier]

GCD

Have regularly climbed the -200 at 250/.7?
I have as that's my companies profile. I find I have the ability to climb to filed altitudes with a comfortable buffer. Perhaps my point of contention is with the term of higher flight level. If the -200 won't make it to a particularly high altitude at one speed, it likely won't or shouldn't be at attempted at any other. When however it's operated within it's proper (not it's certified) envelope, 250 to .7 provides a much better climb rate than 290 to .7 and provides more than an adequate level of safety.

Not to mention, you tend to exceed the historic credit more often................

 

[Axel]

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290kias until FL200 - then VS 500ft/min the rest of the way up.

The rest of the way up to what? Isn't that exactly what those Pinnacle guys did: instead of flying the climb profile they climbed to 410 at 500 ft/min; until arriving at 410 behind the power curve?

Nothing we operate climbs well in the 30's when we're heavy and it's hot. Be careful about making up your own rules lest you too become the subject of an NTSB report and your memory the subject of derision on FI