Bombardier CRJ-700 (DeltaWing)
Editorial Overview & Systems Analysis
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North American Scope-Clause Feeder Operations: Recreating high-density regional hub-and-spoke routes connecting major carrier hubs to secondary and regional commercial airports (e.g., Chicago O'Hare to Traverse City, Denver to Aspen, or Atlanta to Savannah).
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Hot-and-High & Mountain Regional Airport Access: Taking advantage of the CRJ-700’s superior power-to-weight ratio and leading-edge slats to operate into restricted high-altitude or short-runway mountain destinations like Aspen Pitkin County (KASE), Jackson Hole (KJAC), or Eagle County (KEGE).
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European Regional Feeder Schedules: Flying regional commuter rotations for operators like Lufthansa CityLine across Western and Central Europe.
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Hands-On Throttle & Energy Management Practice: Mastering regional airliner flying without autothrottles, requiring continuous manual power adjustments across climb, level-off, step climbs, descent, and visual approaches.
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Key Highlights
- Shorter fuselage provides significantly more forgiving takeoff rotation and landing flare pitch margins compared to the stretched CRJ-900 and CRJ-1000.
- Twin General Electric CF34-8C1 engines modeled with authentic FADEC detents (CLIMB, TOGA, MAX POWER) and brisk spool dynamics.
- Accurate Rockwell Collins Pro Line 4 cockpit and flight director logic, including authentic SPEED mode pitch dynamics and selectable flight director command bar styles.
- Dual window-mounted EFB tablets featuring live weight/balance staging, SimBrief flight plan import, door management, and takeoff/landing speed calculators.
- Multi-layered FMOD sound environment capturing authentic CFM/GE-family spool whine, hydraulic systems, cooling fans, and cabin sound muffling when closing the cockpit door.
- Fully modeled passenger cabin with folding tray tables, opening overhead stowage bins, working window blinds, and animated exterior boarding stairs.
Quirks & Limitations
- FMS architecture operates as an adapted Collins CDU interface layered on top of X-Plane’s native navigation engine rather than a completely bespoke custom navdata engine.
- True to the real Bombardier CRJ family, the aircraft has no autothrottle; pilots must manually set and adjust thrust throughout every phase of flight.
- Lacks native support for the third-party AviTab tablet plugin, relying exclusively on the developer's bespoke in-cockpit EFB.
- Cockpit and overhead circuit breakers are rendered as animated 3D meshes but function procedurally without component-level electrical fault logic.
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