CRJ Sun Visors

[Typhoon1244]

I've been wondering this for some time now: what do all of you CRJ-200 captains out there have against the sun visor? Every airplane I climb into, the visor has been removed and stuffed in the "magazine rack," and I'm obliged to slide the thing back into place.

I think it's great. Why do y'all keep removing them?

 

[Longhorn]

Ya know, I dont have a clue. When I was a FO I never had a problem with the sun visor. Now that I think about it, if the sun is not directly in my eyes, I take it down and place it behind my flight case or the Mag/Checklist/Lint/Garbage/Snack/Jumpseat Instruction sheet holder.(that spot is good for everything) Or I am using it as a release tearing device, lunch tray (very sturdy...watch the coffee, that can hurt, or a clip-board for signing stuff, or a jepp revision asistance tray. I never did think about that until now. Yep, I take it down but did not start until I upgraded. On a serious note, about 1 in five actually stay up with the knob tight. The others will slide down and smack you on the top of your head in the bumps or on my....um...fo's landings.

Good day...fly safe.

 

[regionalcap]

Because that's the best place to keep it when the sun is not in your eyes..I hate it when people store it on the side with it turned around backwards..It is a pain to loosen.

 

[Ted Striker]

Sun Visors

I move them becuase most of them don't stay up and they fall into my "head room". I stick it in the slot with the MEL when I am not using it.

 

[Hovernut]

I've never seen them removed in Comair RJs. When not used, they either just hang down at the end of the rail, or are flipped up and the corner wedged behind the ckt bkr panel...my preferred position as it doesn't interfere with the a/c flow and allows me to see all the purdy sights outside.

I just make sure I snug it just enough where it still rotates and slides, but won't knock out of place. I hate it when people gorilla the knob and twist it backwards! Anybody notice on the newer RJs how they've repositioned the removal track aft and the last segment is usually loose and floppy?

 

[Longhorn]

Yea...about our last 30 planes have the loose flippy thing on the end. They also moved the visor insert thing back. (i have no idea what that is called) Last week on short final I heard this thud and then the Fo yelled OUCH. It was his visor slapping him in the forhead and knocking his headsets and sunglasses half of his face. I have not laughed so hard in a long time......was nice having me in tears of laughter and him fighting with the visor on short final.......

 

[Hovernut]

Yeah, those floppy ones have been the only ones giving me trouble, too. Only, mine slid off on rotation causing us both to look at each other and say WTF was that??

 

[Anaconda]

it drives me up the wall when guys wedge that thing in between the circuit breaker panel and the side. that is not a preferred position at all. it can be a total pain in the but to get it out of there. for the very few of them that can't be tightened in the "up" postion, just take them off IMHO. why would it ever interfere with the a/c in the first place?

 

[V-1]

So YOU'RE the guy who keeps taking them off!

 

[XLR8]

I personally like to take them off and put them in the magazine rack myself! When you're not using them, they just get in the way. They're not that hard to put on, plus whenever you need a tray table for our wonderful crew meals........okay, maybe not.

Anyway, I think they get in the way if they're on the little bar thing that they slide around on, espically at night. It's tough to see other airplanes through one of them.

 

[skiddriver]

You'll find that taking them off or jamming them upside down into the corner is unnecessary if you just reach back and twist it edge on and back a little bit. It will out of your field of view to the side and the next guy in the cockpit won't be cursing you as he breaks off a couple of circuit breakers unstowing the visor from where you put it.

Oh, and also -

don't leave your half full cups of soda in the cup receptacle and if you drop a bottle of water and it rolls behind the pedals, get it out yourself (you lazy b*st*rd, you know who you are).

 

[Anaconda]

You'll find that taking them off or jamming them upside down into the corner is unnecessary if you just reach back and twist it edge on and back a little bit.


don't leave your half full cups of soda in the cup receptacle and if you drop a bottle of water and it rolls behind the pedals, get it out yourself (you lazy b*st*rd, you know who you are).

you might have to show me that one, i'm not getting it. are you saying stow it up by the circuit breakers just don't twist the knob that tight or what? i agree though, it is totally unnecessary to take it off. i haven't had an aircraft yet that i couldn't either tighten the knob with the visor in the up position, or just slide it back, with the knob loose, to the rear.

oh, and i love the coffee/water/soda ACTUALLY in the cup receptacle, not in a cup itself...nice touch, huh?

 

[skiddriver]

Yeah, I wasn't very clear, let me try again...

Start with visor in "normal" stowed position, clamped to rail, visor oriented down, stowed against side window.

Position your seat for flight.

Reach back, loosen knob on visor, twist visor so the forward edge rotates inward (you're now looking at the visor edge on), and rotate the assembly inward toward the circuit breaker panel. Tighten knob.

Look over your shoulder. Voila! Visor is now out of your exterior field of view, is readily deployable, and you haven't ruined it's ability to stay in place by wrenching it up and down while tightly clamped.

Whole thing takes about two seconds to accomplish. Enjoy.

 

[T-Gates]

I seriously hate when I get into the airplane and the visor is back up against the CB panel and tightened fully. I don't even know how someone could get it there!

Also fabulous for tearing releases and doing paperwork!

--03M