It’s been awhile since my last update, and we have been under full winter conditions for the last month or so which has made the flights allot more interesting.
As well, we’ve since had the introduction of “third person” with FSRealistic, which makes the walkaround process much more enjoyable.
Does anyone know how many Static Wic’s are on the CRJ-900?
I was fortunate enough to take a month off for Christmas vacation this year (December 6th - January 2nd) and with that, we went “on vacation” from the Virtual Airlines to do some other types of flying!
sorry my bad I meant to say “I haven’t even reached 50 hours yet but* hopping to reach them”. And do we get a reward for reaching a surtin amount of hours?
While the CRJ has its share of quirks, and lacks some options / features of other airliners, it was both satisfying and rewarding to learn and fly.
Especially during the descent and approach phases as I found this to be the busiest cockpit so far during those times and most rewarding once you learned the techniques used by real world CRJ pilots to get down safely and effectively (lack of VNAV).
With the CRJ / JAZZ career wrapping up we are taking sometime to get back to GA and family flying while training for the next chapter with the mainline.
In the meantime, a few shots from the last few months.
It’s been a couple of months since switching over to the A320 to the CRJ and with the recent release of ini’s JFK it was time to fly a few VA regional routes.
As luck would have it, VATSIM was fully staffed for NYC on JFK launch day so we had full coverage in and out. This also meant the sky’s and ground were busy!
Where, when and what I fly are not random occurrences (and if you follow my threads, that will come as no surprise) OCD.
I fly for Virtual Air Canada (vacanada.org) and keep a detailed list of every real world route for each Air Craft I am ranked to fly.
From that list, I sort it by Payware / Handcrafted airport availability, then further by what I own, or where to buy it.
I will admit, I’ve become a payware airport snob and detest flying into Autogen airports.
I keep all of this documented on a spreadsheet
And then also keep a spreadsheet of all my completed flights (currently offline)
So as new routes pop up, or routes that didn’t previously have a payware airport now do, I’ll either complete them, or re-do them.
With regards to Air Canada Jazz (Express) after completing the CYYZ - KJFK run on ini’s new airport. I noticed there were a few new runs that I had not yet completed.
By the time we got to Regina, we were back in a winter wonderland, AKA blizzard. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any screenshots as the CRJ requires all hands on deck to bring down versus the A320 and it was right down to minimums (with 125ft to spare).
I absolutely love the CRJ, is it complete, nope, is it quirky, yep, but it can be a fun handful to fly and once you learn how to work around the quirks it’s fantastic.
One thing I’d love to have fixed, is the windshield heat actually function
There are no tangible rewards in the sim.
