Swayne coming to a 121 near you
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Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
You know, if they'd let me hit the (D) pseudo-waypoint of my own accord on an arrival linked to an approach, sans micromanagement (we're looking at you, Miami Approach), all of our lives would be easier.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Quit complaining and activate approach phase coming through 10,000' like the rest of us.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
He probably hand flies up to 10k!
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Wrong direction, kid.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Kid? Dude, I'm twenty-eight!
adk
Steals Hotel Toilet Paper
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
Only because there's no auto takeoff yet
In USAF training we used to put a student in the back seat of the T-38, cover up the canopy with a canvas hood, and let them do a blind "instrument takeoff" just by following runway heading on the HSI.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Activate and consecrate, alleluia
ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Hell I know I’m still new to the gig, but I’m on day 3 of 4 off...my kids keep looking at me wondering why I’m still here. Im starting to get twitchy...guess it takes a while for the excitement to go fly to get beaten out of your system. It is nice though to run errands during the week when things are open and take my kids to school.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
Oh, I still absolutely love my job. When I was 6 years old and standing on the observation deck in Tokyo I watched 747s land from cities all over the world. That’s exactly the kind of flying I’ve always wanted to do and I’m doing exactly that. I love my job, but I gotta have some time to relax.
AAPalmTree
Well-Known Member
you're welcome
I honestly don't mind it. It's loud as hell, and the pitch trim has had issues during takeoff, but I have the rest of my career to fly with VNAV and autothrottles. The anti ice system works well, it slows down fairly easily, the systems make sense and the flight guidance is pretty straightforward. I think it's probably one of the easier jets to fly (coming from an idiot turboprop driver whom embraer designed it for)
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
That sounds a lot better than the 200
A150K
Well-Known Member
I do...but I'm a simple minded former turboprop driver.
My issues with the EMB-145 are minor. As long as you’re conscious of the habits you’ll pick up and have to unlearn you’ll be ok. (But I guess that’s true of any airplane)
- the anti-ice. It comes on automatically. I’m not aware of any other plane with automatic anti-ice. Everyone else (airbus boeing bombardier) you learn to automatically glance at the temp gauge when you fly thru visible moisture then if it meets criteria for anti-ice you manually turn on the anti-ice. On an embaer you don’t develop that automatic reflex to look and if you really need the extra performance (never in normal operation -maybe in an emergency) you can’t override the antiice. It’s on and you can’t turn it off.
- bypassing safety guards. When you lift a safety guard it’s meant to force you to think about what you’re doing. i.e. do you really want to do this? Bypassing a safety guard twice is a normal procedure on an Embraer for every flight. Since you defeat the safety guards every flight you’re desensitized and don’t give a second thought to lifting a guard anymore. You don’t bypass any safety guards on an airbus Boeing bombardier in the normal course of a flight.
The navigation on an emb-145 was an afterthought so none of the avionics boxes talk to each other. So while the captains fms is flying somewhere the fos fms could be flying somewhere else or even not loaded at all.
About the only thing I liked about the emb-145 was it had an ahrs. No EFIS COMP MON cautions taking off from LGA in an Embraer.
Anyway it’s an airplane and it’s the airplane you’re flying that pays the bills. There will be many planes after the Embraer.
- the anti-ice. It comes on automatically. I’m not aware of any other plane with automatic anti-ice. Everyone else (airbus boeing bombardier) you learn to automatically glance at the temp gauge when you fly thru visible moisture then if it meets criteria for anti-ice you manually turn on the anti-ice. On an embaer you don’t develop that automatic reflex to look and if you really need the extra performance (never in normal operation -maybe in an emergency) you can’t override the antiice. It’s on and you can’t turn it off.
- bypassing safety guards. When you lift a safety guard it’s meant to force you to think about what you’re doing. i.e. do you really want to do this? Bypassing a safety guard twice is a normal procedure on an Embraer for every flight. Since you defeat the safety guards every flight you’re desensitized and don’t give a second thought to lifting a guard anymore. You don’t bypass any safety guards on an airbus Boeing bombardier in the normal course of a flight.
The navigation on an emb-145 was an afterthought so none of the avionics boxes talk to each other. So while the captains fms is flying somewhere the fos fms could be flying somewhere else or even not loaded at all.
About the only thing I liked about the emb-145 was it had an ahrs. No EFIS COMP MON cautions taking off from LGA in an Embraer.
Anyway it’s an airplane and it’s the airplane you’re flying that pays the bills. There will be many planes after the Embraer.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Where did you fly the 145? The Honeywell boxes can operated together or be set to single mode so they operate entirely independently.
Also, not every 145 has a full AHRS. We had some at XJT that had flux compasses still, and you had the problems in LGA with the HSI being off.