Yes, there might be some problems with the CRJ but I don’t have issues with most of it. Even the very celebrated Kodiak, JF Arrow(2) and other mods have issues.
I’ve had the CRJ since release including the upgrades to the 900 and 1000. Are there a few issues? Yeah. Sometimes. Frame rate loss is one of them but the overwhelming majority of the time I use the CRJ I have very few issues and find it to be very stable.
I don’t have the Twin Otter.
I also completely agree with some of their behavior in their forums.
It can be very dismissive. Most of the time there are pretty helpful though.
To have a stable and relatively decent fidelity of an airliner, I would not pass up the CRJ. It was my main gateway of airliners for this particular sim.
Still fly it and still love it.
It’s also IMO way more of a challenge than the A320 for example. You don’t know how easy it is to fly an airliner with an autothrottle until you fly one where you don’t have one available. I went back a couple of times to the A320NX and found it to be a bit boring by comparison (eg lack of things to do after takeoff until landing and with autothrottle lack of things to do until you disconnect it just before landing). I guess like the CRJ, there’s aways the FMC to play around with enroute.
Wondering whether the Mad Dog might be fun (or too hard) to get to grips with too when it releases. In the meantime the CRJ works great despite it being ‘abandoned’.
The only ‘killer’ bug I’ve seen is the complete avionics hang when FMC is used to change stars.
This is also seen if you land the CRJ, then want to take off again without ending the flight and try to edit in a new route with SID/Star. Locks the whole avionics up just about every time for me.
Works fine outside of that though.
The most likely cause of a load error is that there is a mismatch between the navdata version of Simbrief and the CRJ.
Thank you. I am coming to that conclusion. I’ve not encountered this before, butit is highly likely.
@Sim4good and what is your data that most CRJ users are dissatisfied with it?
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Thanks.
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You could test that theory by downgrading the AIRAC cycle that simbrief is using to match what the crj has and then build a new route. See if it loads then.
Any framerate hits? Does it just get installed into your community folder or is it a separate .exe?
I truly enjoy the CRJ. It’s got a very well written manual, a wonderful series of youtube vids going over a tutorial flight, the vast, vast majority of it’s systems work as they should and most of all, it’s a real challenge to fly. Every time I pull off a decent flight, I get a feeling of satisfaction.
I can’t think of any sim out there that doesn’t have issues, many of which are much more significant than the ones being referenced in this thread. I do agree that Aerosoft could do a better job of responding to some of these issues (and FWIW, a rep from them hinted that they have an update coming out in the next week or so). If you choose to pass on this, it’s your loss.
Unfortunately I don’t think you can, unless I’m missing something simbrief only has 2003 without a sub. Crj only has 2102.
Well, my Simbrief AIRAC does not go back to 2102, but I generated a new route using 2113 which is as far back as I could go. Still a mismatch, but you could try it and see if it works.
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Separate exe too.
Same problem here with EIDW - EGKK
Logged a support ticket with Aerosoft 3 days ago, no response.
I’m assuming it’s a navdata mismatch between Simbrief, the CRJ, and/or the sim. I can’t use EIDW as departure.
It would be nice to know if this is definitely down to navdata before spending money on a Navigraph subscription, and in fact it would be nice to know how Aerosoft intended anyone to create and use a flight plan without one.
I assume you have a subscription. I don’t have an option other than 2003.
Maybe I need to get a nav data sub going.
I do yes, but primarily because I use the chart service. Current AIRAC is just a perk. Curious if the plan file I linked you to will work though. Again, still a mismatch, but it might include valid waypoints.
I’l try the flight plan tonight and let you know thank you. That would at least let me know if it works before getting a sub.
You could try the later AIRAC flightplan from EIDW linked in @Slaitmeister 's post above. I will try it out tonight.
Interesting. I hope they fixed the FMC hangs. I did let them know how to reproduce them.
I decided to hop in here since I have a Navigraph subscription and happen to have the CRJ9 loaded up right now.
I think I duped your route in simbrief (see images) and I was able to load it up in the FMS on the CRJ9 with no problems. This is with the latest AIRAC data on both the CRJ9 and FS2020. Take a look:
