RJ opinions

[say again]

Ask LegacyDriver. He'll tell you how the Legacy is the best one out there while he's humping the landing gear.

As far as the DoJet goes;
1: Crap, plane wasn't designed that well. If you need to hire a mechanic, make sur you get one with experience on type.
2: Super easy, easier than the CRJ and ERJ. Cockpit workload is much less as well. More sophsticated than both the ERJ/CRJ. Autopilot is better than the ERJ's, not nearly as sloppy on the intercepts.
3. Awesome. Feels just as solid/stable at low speed as it does at high speed. The ERj feels very mushy when slow.Take off and climb will spank the the others. Comes to an all out stop at 400kts TAS. Short range (400nm or less) it's irrelevant. Ask me if you want more details on this.
4. Loud, they all are.
5. Good, same as the others
6. Louder than the CRJ, quiter than the ERJ. As a corporate shuttle, it has the most comfort. Tallest cabin, wider seats than the ERJ, smaller LAV.
7. Reliability could be better. Seats up front, not comfortable on long days.
8. Take off, climb performance. Workload, it's got VNAV. Able to take off and land on short strips. Simplicity of systems.

The DoJet makes a better corp. plane than airline!!! It wasn't designed for the cycles that we put on it!!!!

The reliability, I heard, isn't that bad according to the people who fly it corporately. I do agree with everything else said!!! I would chosse this one over the rest. Also, the corp. version aka. Envoy's range is FAR greater then that of the airline version!!

 

[Slice121]

Having never personally flown a high performance combat aircraft I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on this, but if our military is fighting with things that handle like the CRJ then the Russians have already won. Oh wait... wrong war, but you get the point.

Having flown both, I assure you it doesn't handle anything like a fighter. If a fighter handled like a 200, we'd never win another war!

 

[dojetdriver]

The DoJet makes a better corp. plane than airline!!! It wasn't designed for the cycles that we put on it!!!!

The reliability, I heard, isn't that bad according to the people who fly it corporately. I do agree with everything else said!!! I would chosse this one over the rest. Also, the corp. version aka. Envoy's range is FAR greater then that of the airline version!!

Is the range due to a lower weight issue?

 

[PBRstreetgang]

CRJ has the same roll rate as an F-16

Yeah but you got no where to mount the sidewinders!
PBR

 

[flashman]

Having flown both, I assure you it doesn't handle anything like a fighter. If a fighter handled like a 200, we'd never win another war!

Ditto. Anyone who claims or hopes ANY RJ handles like a fighter has a serious case of shiny jet syndrome....

 

[sbn340mech]

Most of the 328's engine problems were largly due to the engine of choice. The P&W 306B was not intended for airline use (high cycles) but rather for a corporate enviroment (low cycles)

Now that P&W has done a 4th redesign of the turbine blades we haven't seen any problems yet. Before we were lucky to get 1500 hrs on wing before blades would crack and depart the engine.

Regional flying is alot harder on the airframe/engines than corporate or long haul flights.

I've been working on the 328 for about a year now and I don't think it's that bad mechanically. All a/c have their quirks.