I’ve managed ten sectors or so over the last few weeks and it has “got me”. Slightly quirky when compare to other airliners but that is what is enjoyable about it.
You need to keep ahead of the aircraft as best you can but when you do the rewards are there.
It has only 3 stars at the moment - probably a result of the frustration it caused for many in the beginning, with the - admittedly rather annoying - AP bug
I’m upgrading them to three stars. The low rating is because I was grounded for three months after V 1.0.4 came out along with Sim Update 4. I could not launch the airplane in the sim for three months. It is finally just now operating for me, then it decided it did not want to get along with my new Thrustmaster throttles. After a weekend of troubleshooting and the seemingly obligatory encounter with a nasty troll on Aerosoft’s forum, I finally was able to run a shuttle from KILG to KBOS and back. Excited to have my CRJ back in the skies.
I absolutely love this aircraft. I’ve been simming for about 20 years now, mastering all the PMDG’s which I love but I really needed a break from all that automation and really get flying again. The CRJ is so rewarding on 60-90 minutes flight. Complex enough to keep you busy, with the need to keep in front of it and “feel” the plane as you manually throttle. Absolutely great machine and great graphics too.
There is a CRJ pilot on the Aerosoft Fourm. I will ask him about the LOC/GS capture issue.
I’d really like to know how much imprecision in setting up the approach the AP is able to handle in RL…
My habit with the CRJ has been to intercept the localiser ideally at less than 30deg offset at around 165 kts slowing to VREF as the GS starts to become active.
I suspect I might need to be at VREF prior to the GS waking up.