philipp

I don't think that's naive - you expect your simulated airplane to be closely modelled after the real one. The real CRJ-200 has no A/THR and hence the autopilot has no VNAV button you can press. Same with the simulated CRJ. Every Approach that is in the navigraph database can be carried out by the CRJ. But as I said: without VNAV, there is no automatic vertical guidance on an RNAV appraoch. Philipp

Now I know the reason why we wouldn't want to build the CRJ-900 or -1000. Shorter airplane is safer! LOL

As Javier already pointed out, the CRJ is not an Airbus. It is not a "gear in, autopilot in, coffee in"-aircraft. First difference you will notice - the CRJ has no autothrust. So there is no way it can perform automatic VNAV climbs or descends. And it is not CAT3 certified, that means it can not perform autolands. The FMS can do all the things for lateral navigation that you want: SIDs, airways, STARs, APPRoach TRANSitions,... and you can of course do stuff like change the APP and STAR inflight because the VATSIM controller tells you the wind direction has changed. What you can't do is put VNAV on and leave the plane while fetching coffee. The real CRJ FMS has only very limited advisory capabilities, and they are, as the naming suggests, only advice, never carried out by the plane itself in an automatic way. I decided to not implement most of the advisories for now. Simply because we wanted to release the plane well inside this century. So please be careful with PMDG comparisons - the CRJ is not going to be the PMDG MD-11 for X-Plane. You will be able to fly the CRJ according to normal procedures - and you are going to have some really nasty experiences if you don't follow the normal procedures. But you won't find abnormal procedures modeled to a degree like the PMDG folks do these days. Keep in mind they worked on the MD-11 for five years or more. Cheers, Philipp

Obviously... ;D Folks, besides congratulating Javier and me, there is another person who we all owe respect for supporting our work: Alex Wemmer, programmer of vasFMC. The CRJ-200 is the first aircraft powered by a new incarnation of vasFMC, what I call the "embedded" vasFMC. It combines the power and stability of the well-known vasFMC standalone program with an all new interface designed to run absolutely seamless inside X-Plane. Philipp

Yes, the FMS uses a database that it is updateable via navigraph. Of course we are using an existing format. There are like 20 of them, why should we invent yet another ? So it will be exactly the same data you would get for an MSFS addon aircraft, just that it is packaged as a zip, not as a windows installer. Because the CRJ is Mac, Windows AND Linux. Philipp