jssetzer

OK, I'm still a bit confused. I see the loading from the back and some of the passenger limits changed but the calculations are still weird. It actually makes it worse. Maybe i'm explaining it wrong. I'm in section 5 (Index Calculation) for each section (Pax A, Pax B, etc) I look up how many passengers I have in that section and find the corresponding index variation and put that in the box. then add them up across as is indicated by the boxes. For the second row in section 5 it has "DOI" first which is 36.84 then I add the Pax D, Bags, and Cargo index variations to that. This creates a pretty large number compared to the first row I added for Pax A, Pax B and Pax C. So Total B is much larger than Total A. When I take Total A and subrtract Total B it gives me a negative number for the LIZFW each time since Total B is always larger in my cases. I have a feeling I'm putting the wrong numbers into the boxes for each Pax, cargo and bags boxes but don't know what I should be sticking in there. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I've done many Weight and Balance sheets in my real flying life but this one is just awkward to me.

After flying the CRJ200 for a while now there are a few things that if the developers are open for additions that I would love to see in the future. One of the biggest being expansion on the crew information pages, primarily the F/CTRL page. This is one I miss dearly with my pre-flights, being able to just look at the screen and see the flight control movements makes everything much easier. I honestly am in love with the plane none-the-less and don't really have any complaints. That is the only thing that has stuck out to me so far. Just something to pass along

hmmmmm yeah I found a few posts on it at other places, seems to be an after market add-on for the 100/200 class CRJ. I'm sure because of when this project was being created it wasn't added. That's a relatively new feature that can be ADDED to the CRJ but it does not come standard. That's my two cents on it though. I'm not the developer.

I think he's saying he assigned a button in x-plane to turn on auto throttle and it worked in v1.0 and not v1.1 ... personally I would never want auto throttle on this plane and don't really see a need for it. Even without the FADEC system in the 200 it's not hard to manage a few percent of N1 on any phase of flight.

I've been trying to go through the weight and balance sheet provided with the aircraft and i'm getting stuck on the index calculations (step 5) I've done all my calculations in lbs so I'm taking the second number in the index variables tables and putting them into the appropriate section in section 5. What's confusing me is I get a negative number due to the large DOI number in the second row of section 5. Am I supposed to be calcluating the weight and adding the index on top of it for each section or just putting in the index into each block and adding it up? I guess individual weights would make more sense but want to make sure I'm doing it right. WAIT! are those index variations supposed to have decimals instead of commas so its one number not two??? Thanks all

Absolutely, no problem! I was going to make it the full flight but was running out of memory on the computer. Can go back and do the full flight if the demand is there.

Video I made a while ago of a cold and dark start up with a little bit of explanation to go along.

Shouldn't I be able to do a normal restart with just the APU though?

I have been trying and trying to figure out why I can't get one of my engines to restart after a flight. I started up from cold and dark then flew to my destination without any problems. Taxi'd and shut down the engines, not the APU as I was planning a return trip and was using it for power and AC. When it came time for restart I could not get the #2 engine to spool up at all. ITT was at 108, which if I remember right is something that would need to cool down during the start process before introducing fuel. I tried the #1 engine and let the ITT cool down with the engine spooling and started with no problem. Still after using APU bleed air, and even tried a cross-bleed start from the #1 engine, nothing. Packs were off during every start fyi... any ideas?