A tip for anyone using the Thrustmaster TCA quadrant for throttle control with the CRJ: unscrew and remove the detents to make it a smooth linear throttle. Doing this will stop the throttle levers trying to "climb into" the detents when you're making minute adjustments in the cruise, so the levers stay exactly where you left them. With the detents still in, I've found the levers slowly creep to the detent, thus slowly increasing throttle and speed over time.
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
Great tip! I'm sure that'll help a lot of people!
@Ashleigh_T3 жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek It certainly helped me out last night. I already did this with the CJ4, but didn't think about it for the CRJ since it can use the detents. But when in cruise I always had issues of the throttle creeping back to climb setting though since there's not a large distance between cruise and climb positions. Last night, I removed the detents, set the throttle position once at cruise, and never needed to touch it again until TOD. It stuck to 300kias the entire way (low airways flight)
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
@@Ashleigh_T it's a shame the throttle system on the TCA seems so fiddly
@Rhinozherous3 жыл бұрын
You are able to steer the aircraft without Nosewheel steering armed... thats the reason why I wait for the deeper simulated aircraft like PMDG and FsLabs. But your videos are very good made, thank you!
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
Indeed - I left it in the video because a) if nosewheel steering didn't work I'd have realised quickly and turned it on and b) as a learning point for others 😂 glad you like the videos!
@riri-tu5oi2 жыл бұрын
Although not pmdg or fslabs if you are willing to pay attention to the aircraft and be involved in flying it this is actually a very fun plane to fly.
@hellcapidan977211 ай бұрын
Man this play list is freakin excellent. Thanks for all your hard work for us total airliner noobies
@TheFalconCrusader2 жыл бұрын
I love this game because this is basically like one of the only games that has the real sound of the CRJ
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
It's pretty nice!
@jmizzonini3 жыл бұрын
Great concise tutorial. I made the exact mistake you mentioned on my first go with the crj, I was climbing too slowly and lost all energy and could not finish the climb. At first I thought it was some msfs icing performance thing, only to find out that it was all pilot error lol!
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Episode 3 is about 45mins long and lacked with detail so grab the popcorn for that one 🤣 hopefully you found it useful 👍
@oisinkenny13 жыл бұрын
yep, I had that too! :) There is however still a bug which remains with the CRJ. Some phantom drag (flaps/spoilers/gear) occurs and slows the plane right down. This makes it impossible to climb above FL200 even with max power, this may be related to pausing the sim. It as happened to me, and some well known twitch streamers have had the same issue.
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
@@oisinkenny1 it is indeed pausing the sim. I can tell you now I've not had that problem once... The supercritical wing is very unforgiving so if you don't fly it quite right and lose energy on the climb then you'll have to descend a bit to get the energy back before trying again
@nikolatr713 жыл бұрын
This is excellently done video! It answers some of the questions I have about loosing climbing power or overstressing airframe causing CTD. It also answers by clear advice pushing hdg. button to avoid veering off the course esp. critical during climb phase. This is 101 of Flying CRJ course-- thank you such Luke ! :-)
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
No problem - glad you found it useful! ✈️
@Knife_Eclectic Жыл бұрын
I actually installed this addon and just tried to guess my way through a flight. Granted, between MS2020 and FSX I've got a ton of hours almost all in airliners so I do have a grasp on what I'm doing but the CRJ certainly has some quirks. I'm honestly proud of how well I did for going in blind, but the Critical Wing got me a couple of times and I thought it was my AP acting up. Also, didn't even see the switches to arm the reverse thrust and it never occurred to my Airbus/Boeing that I would need to 😅 Thanks for the videos man! super helpful!
@BritishAvgeek Жыл бұрын
Good to hear! The wing can be an unforgiving beast at times!
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
Always like mate ! I’ll have a go soon with my new purchase. I always read up on user manuals and watch excellent tutorials like yours, before trying myself. This way saves me time and will feel comfortable much faster. Thank you for sharing, hopefully no missing words this time. I’ll look for check lists as well :)
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I'll put something together for my flow though not sure it'll work on one page 🤣 I'll try!
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek Dear Aviation friend ! Guess what ? I really liked your workflow, from cold & dark until ready for taxi. So what I did, I wrote down each step, from beginning to the end. That’s every step you took, every knob you turned, button you pressed…the whole lot ! It took me 4-5 hours ! But at the same time I learned heaps. I had an iPad with CRJ documentation open, had a good look at the pictures while writing. DayOne for journaling, easy to edit and add pictures later on. I’m proud of my achievement today, unfortunately CRJ still sitting at the gate…cold & dark, but might give it a go tonight. I should send you the transcript, because it’s complete, including missing squawk code :) I need to document Episode #2 as well, but not today. Good work mate, keep them coming ! Ronnie
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
@@yams900 incredible! I'd love to see it!
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek Sure mate ! Where can I deliver it 📝 ? I should have a quick look first. At least I got APU going and all steps until Flight Plan. I’m crappy at entering a route by hand, need to practice a lot. All your steps made sense, except a couple. You didn’t mention reason for entering 46 and on screen in magenta it showed flx 85.9. Other thing is trim, you adjusted from your stick 🕹 didn’t mention what button to press or wheel to turn. If you give me email 📧 I’ll send to you
@oisinkenny13 жыл бұрын
Nice videos - thank you! If you could, we would appreciate them in 4k even more. This would make it easier to read the screens/dials.
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
I would love to but if I did my frames would drop considerably 😂 check your KZbin settings as mine on my phone have changed recently to include another Auto setting instead of Full HD so it kept automatically dropping the quality of the videos I was watching 😂
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
Looks sooo much fun mate ! No wonder it’s your favourite, will be mine too. A32NX makes you lazy, as there’s so much automation and flies by itself.
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Indeed - funnily enough in my PPL books they mention increased automation causing significant increase in complacency and it really is takeoff, push button, land by comparison to the CRJ! Love needing to think further ahead and you get a lot more out of managing it too - a good flight feels like a success
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
Always useful mate, decided to fly CRJ again :) One flight behind me already, went really well ! Brushing up my skills
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Nice! It's a great aircraft 🙂
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek One of my favourites! One thing I forgot to ask, can you use Speed Mode for descending ? I’ve always used VS :)
@MrGASLP3 жыл бұрын
Enjoying your series. Keep it up.
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 👍
@Sharjoom2 жыл бұрын
I prefer to set radio freqs and transponder code using the fmc radio page.
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Yep that's an additional way Aerosoft added in to the aircraft but the manual dials are the "proper way" if you want the added immersion
@Belfran3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video again, you bring value with easy explanations re: supercritical
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
It's something that stumps a lot of people so always good to try explain things in a basic way to help everyone :)
@mps_gaming18982 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for very nice tutorial :-)
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
Have you flown CRJ since the update in July 2022 ? Maybe you could recap/revisit do a blast from the past...remind us how good CRJ really is !
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
I have indeed! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3zZhXitpJidgKM
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
Great N1 tip, going to make a note on that. And you set N1 by using the throttle, right ?
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Yes exactly - calibration is therefore vital in this so you have a wider/bigger range for the throttle so in cruise you can make lots of very tiny adjustments
@grando728011 ай бұрын
Hey man, when i get go fligth level 300 my crj start to climbe very slow any tips?
@StrictlySports Жыл бұрын
if you turn the app bleed off before the apu is shut down completely will it turn the airplane off? also every time i take off it goes really fast and over stresses the airplane.
@BritishAvgeek Жыл бұрын
Turn overstressing off, MSFS isn't great at that... And if you turn apu bleed off yeah you might lose some systems. And if you take off too quick, reduce the throttle a bit more in climb or set a flex
@StrictlySports Жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek ofc yeah that’s why i kept togs power in even when climbing
@paul123p Жыл бұрын
Amazing video as always. Random Q. Is the VNAV button not used?
@BritishAvgeek Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Great question too. The CRJ550/700 never had a VNAV system on most of the aircraft and it was something more regularly seen in the CRJ900/1000 irl - something I learnt from one of our channel members who spent years flying the CRJ as a Captain and is now on twin-aisles. I personally don't use VNAV for descent and instead use verticle speed even in the crj900 - the ball gives a great indication of what your rate of descent needs to be and it's how a lot of CRJ pilots would fly it from what I've been told
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
Sorry to bother, how to clear information in scratchpad of FMS ? I accidentally entered wrong flight level information. Now it says DELETE in scratchpad, pressing DEL or CLR won’t make any difference. I’ve tried a different angle, some users suggested. Nothing blocking the view. Going to a different page or menu, and try to clear information from there…doesn’t work. If I start typing say F400, it looks like DELETEF400…then I can press CLR a few times, becomes DELETE again. This happens in CRJ700, can you please compared to your aircraft and suggest me a solution. I’ll keep trying…Ronnie
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Did you find a solution in the end? I'd have to take a look to figure it out myself but you should be able to overwrite any wrong cruise info like FL
@yams9002 жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek No solution my friend to scratchpad issue. If you have a chance, pls compare to your CRJ, check what model. If you say “final solution” you’ll be in big trouble in Australia:)
@johnmaracle41582 жыл бұрын
I've gone this far however the aircraft will just not climb Im missing something
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
Speed mode, and put the throttle into the Climb gate :)
@johnmaracle41582 жыл бұрын
@@BritishAvgeek back to redoing yet again haha
@osamaedris83763 жыл бұрын
What is XPDR
@BritishAvgeek3 жыл бұрын
Transponder :)
@Harry_Ng2 жыл бұрын
British Avgeek when u dont press heading select: >:(
@BritishAvgeek2 жыл бұрын
At which bit? After takeoff? Because we were going straight into Nav mode
@AndrewGrey22Ай бұрын
Mine just speeds out of control, FMS properly set, throttle to CLIMB, climbing airspeed blows right past 250kts to 375 redline. I'm sick of messing with this no auto throttle mess and poor systems design. This is why pilots quickly move to get out of this aircraft into a larger one in real life. No one wants to fly these things. I'm deleting mine once and for all. Not a big Aerosoft fan anyway.