Fuel Burn of the ERJ145 and CRJ200

A Matt said:
Having flown both - can you say one type was more "ugh" than the other? Was one more reliable? Many Thanks.
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I'll take a 145 any day over the CRJ-200 just because the former is built by Embraer and the other is a glorified Challenger. None of this derision is to be directed at the 700/900, which are proper airliners with proper engines and wings and ECS.

Subjectively, and this is a over a half-decade (Christ!) and a bankruptcy ago, I thought the Eagle airplanes were pretty reliable in the short time I flew them. That said, neither airplane gets better with age. Now that Vfo8 and 20 are restricted to 200 knots, the flaps don't hardly fail as often as they did on the -200, but that's a lousy "fix" as well.

Other annoyances: EFIS COMP MON :confused::confused::confused:, the fact that my feet are going to freeze in the summer while the rest of me sweats profusely as there are only floor-level vents, the manic-depressive temperature control, no engine sync so that UNDbro makes the people in the last row vibrate asymmetrically as we hurtle towards Grand Forks, the landing gear which will fail to do its thing as commanded on occasion (I don't care as much if it comes up when I ask, I'd very much prefer it to come down when commanded!), Bombardier generally.

That said, I actually do enjoy the act of flying the -200. It is a decent airplane on the wrong damn mission.
 
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Were the 145's dependable?

Generally speaking yes. I can't think of any system that failed with great frequency or that was a known sore spot. Most times that the planes were "unreliable" it had more to do with the airline working them hard and not having the time to fix them. I think the 145 was a less finicky plane than the crj200. No crazy flap issues, no weird climb speed limits.....ERJ you could climb basically as slow as you wished (like down to Mach .60) all the way up to it's ceiling of FL370, every time....
 
Baronman said:
Were the 145's dependable?

Generally speaking yes. I can't think of any system that failed with great frequency or that was a known sore spot. Most times that the planes were "unreliable" it had more to do with the airline working them hard and not having the time to fix them. I think the 145 was a less finicky plane than the crj200. No crazy flap issues, no weird climb speed limits.....ERJ you could climb basically as slow as you wished (like down to Mach .60) all the way up to it's ceiling of FL370, every time....
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I don't think I once flew the FLC speed schedule in the climb. It was always "get that lawn dart out from underfoot."
 
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