Airline video

easyJet spent a fortune on having HUD’s installed on the 737’s in order to get reduced minimums for low vis approaches however they couldn’t maintain crew recency on the system and ended up binning the idea.

A HUD is an option on the ERJ. We don’t have them and as far as I know no other US carriers do. I believe that only European operators have opted to get them.

Am i right in thinking that the ERJ has HUD? Or am I mistaking this with the CRJ?

Ah thanks very much, we are hard done by then! Lots of circuit breakers though 😮

Originally posted by Mark L
Thanks for the response WD and the links to the videos. The ERJ is a very interesting plane, one that I like flying in FS quite a lot (The closest I’ll ever get 🙁 ) However one thing that I only got a few short looks at was the overhead panel. In FS we only get it portrayed as a very narrow strip, and I was wondering if you could maybe take a few photos of it, as a general overview please?

Thanks,

Mark

Here you go…. not much detail, but this is what I have on my computer right now.

Ren, see my response on your Tenerife thread.

Originally posted by Bmused55
Hey WD

You ever seen a pic on A.net or JP.net of a flight you were actualy up front on? the picture of that nice Conti emb145 made me think

If anyone wants a picture taken of them “up front” for A.net or similar then let me know, you’ll probably have to be passing through or above GLA and in daylight (as Wys knows, lol)

My services are FOC.

Fascinating, I love seeing how other manufacturers lay out their EFIS information.

Thanks for the response WD and the links to the videos. The ERJ is a very interesting plane, one that I like flying in FS quite a lot (The closest I’ll ever get 🙁 ) However one thing that I only got a few short looks at was the overhead panel. In FS we only get it portrayed as a very narrow strip, and I was wondering if you could maybe take a few photos of it, as a general overview please?

Thanks,

Mark

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
View from the top…

THis is the reason why I love flying sooooooo much

The thing with the jetstream is once you are out of it the wind speeds drop dramatically at altitude. The winds were a lot less at lower altitudes with winds at the airport at about 10 knots. You are right though, high winds aloft and low winds at field elevation make for some tricky approaches. Those conditions are usually associated with weather fronts.

Nice pics WD! Especially the first one, I bet the passengers were happy getting there that fast! But surely, it must have been really difficult on the apporach? If you have to land into the general direction of the wind, then this must have been quite difficult as you had to turn in towards the runway?

Love the last pic especially but they are all great 🙂

A bit. 🙂 It turns red at .78M and the audio alert follows at .785M. The EMB135/145 is an easy airplane to overspeed which requires a bit of attention to prevent. The newest software found in the 145XR adjusts the redline to delay the warnings to allow you to fly at max Mach (.80M) and not continously get the red warning text or aural warning.

Nice pics, although surely in the first one the fact that the airspeed/mach number is red shows you are overspeeding?

excellent photos.

I do love the flight deck snaps and any anecdotes that come with em.

Sure is windy over there! 😮

View from the top…

Since it wasn’t a regular visitor they didn’t have any place to put it so it was stuck out on fringe taxiway. They have a set of stairs pulled up to the aircraft so they can take on fuel for their return to YYZ (my assumption).

Thanks to the movement of the jetstream the weather was really poor giving a good portion of the country everything from rain, freezing rain, ice pellets and snow as well as low ceilings. I’m assuming that this is what brought this visitor into CLE. We were busy with our own stuff so I didn’t get the opportunity to ask the controllers where from/why this Air Canada 744 diverted.

Now flying west from the East coast later that night we are flying straight into the aloft winds giving us only 312 knots across the ground. 🙁 A drastic 316 knot difference from only a few hours before.