CRJ 700 land gear control?

D Bergendorf said:
I can't find this anywhere. Does the CRJ 700 use a lever, or a button, to lower/raise gear?
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What airplane uses a button - that would be kind of cool? Part 23 and 25 describe allowable shapes for cockpit controls:

§25.781 Cockpit control knob shape.
Cockpit control knobs must conform to the general shapes (but not necessarily the exact sizes or specific proportions) in the following figure:

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§23.781 Cockpit control knob shape.
(a) Flap and landing gear control knobs must conform to the general shapes (but not necessarily the exact sizes or specific proportions) in the following figure:

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(b) Powerplant control knobs must conform to the general shapes (but not necessarily the exact sizes or specific proportions) in the following figure:
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One of the simulator videos on You Tube has the "pilot" saying, "retract the gear," and he reaches up and touches a button. It wasn't a CRJ, though. Just wondering if you still "throw" a lever, or is it semi-automated?
 
D Bergendorf said:
One of the simulator videos on You Tube has the "pilot" saying, "retract the gear," and he reaches up and touches a button. It wasn't a CRJ, though. Just wondering if you still "throw" a lever, or is it semi-automated?
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I'm pretty certain that as far as Part 23 and Part 25 go (so, any jets certified by the FAA), it's all lever based. Good UX design requires some sort of tactile feedback as far as, is the gear up or is the gear down, and a button that you push doesn't really allow for that.
 
gear handle has to be shaped like a wheel, flap handle like a flap, so that you dont accidentally confuse the two
 
BobDDuck said:
I'm pretty certain that as far as Part 23 and Part 25 go (so, any jets certified by the FAA), it's all lever based. Good UX design requires some sort of tactile feedback as far as, is the gear up or is the gear down, and a button that you push doesn't really allow for that.
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"Reach out, touch the lever, think, move."
 
Cessnaflyer said:
Must be my lack of sleep or our 10'000' cabin altitude, but I am having a bad mental image with this.
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At first I was like... Cool, in flight wifi. And then I was like... what plane flies around with a cabin altitude of 10,000 feet that has wifi? And then I thought, maybe you have a cabin in the woods at 10,000 feet of elevation... but then I realized that you probably wouldn't get wifi up there in the woods, so I really don't know.

(and if you can't tell, I'm procrastinating from cleaning my apartment)
 
BobDDuck said:
At first I was like... Cool, in flight wifi. And then I was like... what plane flies around with a cabin altitude of 10,000 feet that has wifi? And then I thought, maybe you have a cabin in the woods at 10,000 feet of elevation... but then I realized that you probably wouldn't get wifi up there in the woods, so I really don't know.

(and if you can't tell, I'm procrastinating from cleaning my apartment)
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King Air 200 at FL330. It's nice to be able to ride the winds to the east.
 
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