Fantastic video. I've just sat in the CRJ following this step by step and it's an absolute delight to fly! Thank you so much for helping everyone with such a quick and concise tutorial.
Finally found a tutorial that is simple and straight to the point. Only criticism is this aircraft doesn’t have the labels when you hover the mouse over them like other aircraft. Taking some getting used to finding where each control is since I’ve spent so long flying the Boeing and Airbus aircraft
Just purchased the CRJ and searching for tutorials. This is the first one I saw, and subscribed because of it. Thank you for keeping it simple and clear, and step by step. I'll be watching this while in the cockpit. Now on to your landing tutorial. Thank you.
You don't need to turn on the DC service switch. That's a feature for service crew who may need to get basic systems online without having to perform the entire startup process. If you switch on the main battery system, that powers everything, and the DC switch doesn't do anything but make a click noise. It's like rolling all your windows down driving down the highway to get some air, and then turning your fan on 'LOW'.
Im new to msfs, I come from dcs which I still love. Tried lots of the aircrafts that came with msfs and some were good but just bought the crj and loving it, such a joy to fly and I love landing it.. Thanks for these vids
Just a tip, you forgot the nose wheel steering button. It make the CRJ even easier to steer. :). Amazing how well this aircraft handles on take off. Flying the default aircraft on take off and keeping them on the center line of runway is a nightmare. Makes you not want to ever go back to default craft.
Love your vids, very clear and easy to follow along. I just got the CRJ and with my minor case of dyslexia I just didn't get the whole written tutorial thing. I just kept wondering what to press and when. You remove all the guessing work and I just follow along. Thank you so much.
Still running into issues with this aircraft, god bless you for sticking with it. Spent 30 minutes setting up flight plan, struggling to get rid of a discontinuity and then the damned thing crashes to desktop. This aerosoft CRJ is definitely not for the faint of heart, thats for sure
Considering the $50 price tag I wouldnt mind the checklist thing that msfs 2020 has, I'm still pretty new to flight sim and I learn by the checklist on how the turn it on and what to do after its very useful, then of course I can finally follow some of these tutorials.
Where is the knob in the aircraft to set the trim to the required number for takeoff? I can't seem to find it. I see you showed it but I couldn't see from where you changed the setting.
I worked for there for about 12 years. I also worked on the CL215 Water Bomber. They sent me to their test facility in Mohave Desert twice, first time to replace bearings that were not staked or swaged within specs. The bearings on the wing links were swaged at 20 tons so that was fun doing that with the portable tools I was using. The second time was to work on the CL600 aircraft do the FFA certification.
@@Drawyah My ex took off with our 3 kids to a 5 hour drive and played games when I went to see the kids so I quit job plus the job at a bar and moved to Florida for 3 years and bounced/bartended and works on building houses during the week. I returned to the city where my ex lived. Kids moved in with me and I opened a paralegal business which I am still doing
I took off and my plane was stalling at toga and it wouldnt climb (wasn’t overweight) and then I turned on auto pilot and my plane started flying in circles. Any suggestions?
Great video ! Question: 24:13 you mention something about "letting the crew know" Is there a button that alert the flight attendance that take off is starting ?
I’ve had this for the second time when I did a flight now that I couldn’t lift up because the plane simply didn’t want to get in the air. I did everything like you did. I’ve watched several startup videos. All weights were supposed to be Okay. The Trim was set. It was set to 8.9 up tho which sounds kinda weird to me but it was green. Once I finally get up in the air when I set the trim way higher than it was originally set the plane doesn’t want to climb and slowly goes down crashing into the ground. For me this is an indication that I’m way too heavy which is very frustrating since simbrief did all the calculating and I chose the CRJ 700 preset and all the numbers seem okay... do you have any idea or hint ?
@@Drawyah okay, thanks. I'll need to learn how to do custom cameras (I knew how to do in Xplane but MSFS still a mystery). Good to know about the calibration on the EFB. I'll try that out after my A32NX flight from Brazzaville, Congo to Nairobi, Kenya.
Nice plane! I am still working on the throttle ,getting it right! Cant seem to get my TCA Q- Airbus Thrustmaster to sink with the CRJ,s throttle, maybe have to wait for a update for that to happen?? nice video!!
Hello friend, what is the version of your crj please ? in the performance page in the efb, you color is green, mine is blu, how to change that please ?
Great video and thank you very much! I started with my own FP but followed along. Was in cruise, at FL340 and she kept ballooning, going down to FL320 then up to FL360....it seemed it was always looking for FL340....I tried touching the throttle, ever so slightly to adjust, but simply got tired of chasing the needle and shut the flight down. Any suggestions?
Hey thanks for the video! Just have one quick question, if there any discontinuitys on the legs pages do we delete them? And one more question, when I takeoff and set the lnav it dosent follow the path, I’m %100 sure I did everything right I even loaded up the plane 3 different times and still didn’t want to follow it?Thanks!
You don't delete, rather copy and paste waypoints into these gaps. As for the first plan if the aircraft struggles to follow, Direct yourself to the next available waypoint.
Where are you getting this information to put into the FMS for the flight plan? The route it shows me when I make a flight plan in FS does not include things like airways or departure patterns.
Hey mate, I’m following your tutorial exactly only I’m in cry 900 flying out from EDDF to EDDM,, when I get to the part that I have to click apu power switch, nothing happens not seeing apu inbite appear, on the right screen bottom left it says APU door and then 4 broken yellow lines, do u know why this is? Much appreciated thanks
@@Drawyah hey man, thanks for the reply... It wasn't starting no matter what I did put I unplugged my current warthog hotus cause I got the Honeycomb one and now it all of a sudden works, must of been a button automatically mapped that was interfering with it or something not sure.. Anyways thanks again for your vids
Awesome video, but how do you taxi this? It's not recognizing my yokes rudder knob at all. It only works with the default trim MSFS has which ruins taxiing. Any help?
Hello mate, a question, if i select my Sid i want to take off, it always wants a Transiton also, if i select the one i like everything is connected fine to the waypoint, but if i click EXEC it messes up everything and the dep sids just leads me nowhere near my waypoints..
There must be an bug with the engine start button. I dont get a white light after pressing start and my engine will not start. When i press strg+e engines will start. Ive done everthing like in the video...
what button to you use to adjust the takeoff trim? It's not completely obvious in the tutorial. Also whenever I'm on descent the nose starts pitching up super high. Does anyone know why?
Noob question here. All the other planes have it automatically entered in so I don’t have to do it. Is there a way I can do it with this plane or do I have to manually enter it in.
@@patricks8876 I understand that you can use simbreif but I am an amateur so I usually use one of the flight plans in game. It doesn’t automatically show up on the FMS like it would if I were flying the airbus. After doing some further research I do not think this plane is compatible with doing that.
Wondering why not all of the points in my route generated by simbrief are in available in the fmc, keep getting “not in database” or “not found” any ideas?
I know you mentioned that the speed management is much more manual. However i don't know why, but the "speed limiter" or what the button is called simply doesnt work for me. My plane is either accelerating way too much but if i reduce the speed and don't pay too much attention, the speed quickly drops below 160 knots. I don't know how to maintain a speed level yet. Otherwise your video really helped me a lot. Especially with starting up the APU :D
There is no speed limiter, the CRJ has no autothrust. When I that speed management is key, I'm referring to how you manually control your throttle speed.
Flight simulator just had a update and right? And when the update was finish I had to update one of my planes and it was updateing and All of a sudden the update just stop at the end. and when I rebooted the game back up and try to update the plane again and I thought it was done updateing and when I tried to Select a plane it was missing I look on my files and it was there in my files but it’s missing in the aircraft selection do u know how to get it back
Fantastic video. I've just sat in the CRJ following this step by step and it's an absolute delight to fly! Thank you so much for helping everyone with such a quick and concise tutorial.
Glad to hear that everything works for you Ryan, I wish you many happy virtual hours!
Finally found a tutorial that is simple and straight to the point. Only criticism is this aircraft doesn’t have the labels when you hover the mouse over them like other aircraft. Taking some getting used to finding where each control is since I’ve spent so long flying the Boeing and Airbus aircraft
Just purchased the CRJ and searching for tutorials. This is the first one I saw, and subscribed because of it. Thank you for keeping it simple and clear, and step by step. I'll be watching this while in the cockpit. Now on to your landing tutorial. Thank you.
Perfect thanks...got really frustrated with it last night. You made it so much more simple and easy and now i’m enjoying a flight with the crj
Glad to hear, I wish you many happy virtual hours! 🙌
You don't need to turn on the DC service switch. That's a feature for service crew who may need to get basic systems online without having to perform the entire startup process. If you switch on the main battery system, that powers everything, and the DC switch doesn't do anything but make a click noise. It's like rolling all your windows down driving down the highway to get some air, and then turning your fan on 'LOW'.
Good job on the tutorial! 👍🏼
Cool to see you here!!!
The star with his TBM himself! Glad that you found the tutorial helpful, I wish you many happy virtual hours! 🙌
Just bought the CRJ and this was extremely helpful.
I'm glad you found it so!
Im new to msfs, I come from dcs which I still love. Tried lots of the aircrafts that came with msfs and some were good but just bought the crj and loving it, such a joy to fly and I love landing it.. Thanks for these vids
I'm glad you're finding the tutorials handy, enjoy flying the CRJ! It's a very hands-on aircraft, one I adore flying.
Just a tip, you forgot the nose wheel steering button. It make the CRJ even easier to steer. :). Amazing how well this aircraft handles on take off. Flying the default aircraft on take off and keeping them on the center line of runway is a nightmare.
Makes you not want to ever go back to default craft.
Absolutely agree with handling, the aircraft feels just right! By far the best right now in MSFS. I'll also be sure to activate nose steering.
I keep coming back to this video....very helpful. Thank you
I have been waiting for this video. Best instructor on the internet for this stuff! Thanks for taking the time to shoot this!
Thank you for the kind words!
This video answered my worry after 1 minute. Not launching cold & dark is weird, for such an aircraft. So, thank you :)
This is so much better than the PDF manual. Thank you so much!
YES. YES. YES. Thank you so much. Your tutorials helped me fly all the jets!
Thank you for the kind words, I wish you many happy virtual hours! 🙌
Thanks so much, i know there so much tutorials nowdays on yt, but this is best
back again with a great tutorial
Love your vids, very clear and easy to follow along. I just got the CRJ and with my minor case of dyslexia I just didn't get the whole written tutorial thing. I just kept wondering what to press and when. You remove all the guessing work and I just follow along. Thank you so much.
Glad you found it helpful, happy virtual flying!
Yours are the best Tutorials I have seen. I would love to watch you live but the time diff makes that hard. Thanks heaps mate.
Thank you for the kind words, hope to see you on a live one day!
The CRJ 550 is an awesome aircraft. I wish I had the same simulator in my laptop. God bless you for the job Hats up Captain😅😅😅.
Thanks, This is a great Bird. I've been flying the Airbus and got too used to the Auto Throttle.
A very "meaty" and satisfying plane to learn and fly! I just bought mine yesterday.
Enjoy learning it!
This was so helpful, I hope to see more aircraft tutorials in the future!
Awesome tutorial Drawayh! Very good explanations! Thanks for making this great tutorial for us all!
This is brilliant, thank you very much for taking the time to post it. Hugely helpful for me.
Glad you found it helpful! 🙌
Still running into issues with this aircraft, god bless you for sticking with it. Spent 30 minutes setting up flight plan, struggling to get rid of a discontinuity and then the damned thing crashes to desktop. This aerosoft CRJ is definitely not for the faint of heart, thats for sure
Yes, they've gone to the extreme with aircraft setup, it shouldn't be crashing however! Keep at it, you'll get there.
Your easy talking voice is literally the exact thing I need to be able to learn a new aircraft
Glad to know my heavily-fatigued 2am speaking voice is clear and concise still! Definitly one thing I was weary of. 😅
Considering the $50 price tag I wouldnt mind the checklist thing that msfs 2020 has, I'm still pretty new to flight sim and I learn by the checklist on how the turn it on and what to do after its very useful, then of course I can finally follow some of these tutorials.
Where is the knob in the aircraft to set the trim to the required number for takeoff? I can't seem to find it. I see you showed it but I couldn't see from where you changed the setting.
use your trim button (that you probably have mapped on the stick), trim down or trim up and watch the number changed to your desired setting. :-)
You forgot the nosewheel steering to arm 🙈 but thanks for the video. It’s short and yet very explaining. Helped me a lot !
This video was never going to be perfect recorded at 2am, so long it helps the basics!
@@Drawyah It did a lot ! Thank you
Great video! Could you maybe do an update tutorial for setting custom wing views like you did for the default airliners?
The process is exactly the same. Adjust the camera config and move around.
Your Videos are so helpful! Thank you! Greetings from Germany
I worked for Canadair, later known as Bombardier, on the CL600 and CL601 which was the baby version of the CRJ-550/700
Very nice! How long were you there for?
I worked for there for about 12 years. I also worked on the CL215 Water Bomber. They sent me to their test facility in Mohave Desert twice, first time to replace bearings that were not staked or swaged within specs. The bearings on the wing links were swaged at 20 tons so that was fun doing that with the portable tools I was using. The second time was to work on the CL600 aircraft do the FFA certification.
That's pretty good! Did you leave by choice or stuck around until the projects were all sold off and retired a year or two ago?
@@Drawyah My ex took off with our 3 kids to a 5 hour drive and played games when I went to see the kids so I quit job plus the job at a bar and moved to Florida for 3 years and bounced/bartended and works on building houses during the week. I returned to the city where my ex lived. Kids moved in with me and I opened a paralegal business which I am still doing
Yikes, that's a hell of a story! Glad it all worked out in the end for you!
Thanks, very helpful. The "learn on your own" method I was trying was NOT working, lol.
Yeah....I tried that once upon a time, eventually you'll need to look back and ask for help. 😅 Goodluck with it!
But Drawyah, I really like all your Videos and tutorials and that you make so many Livestreams!
Thank Drawyah you really helped me
Great instructional video. Thank you.
Great tutorial my friend
I'm glad you found it helpful!
Thank you! Even though I haven’t got this yet edit: I now have this plane!
Too good man crj looks amazing!
Great Guide, Thank You Drawyah.
Can't wait to get my hands on this airplane!
New video. That's nice!
Very good tutorial Video Thank you very much for this
Glad you found it helpful!
I took off and my plane was stalling at toga and it wouldnt climb (wasn’t overweight) and then I turned on auto pilot and my plane started flying in circles. Any suggestions?
Check your weight! If configured incorrectly you'll likely stall on climbout!
Wow, you learn fast!
Great video ! Question: 24:13 you mention something about "letting the crew know" Is there a button that alert the flight attendance that take off is starting ?
Thanks for the tutorial! Where do I the cruising altitude when i turn the wheel i cant find it? Thanks!
Superb tutorial!
Thank you for this tutorial!
They need more aircraft with this amount of systems that work and more checklists!
When I try and put the waypoints and stuff in it doesn’t work it says not found is their anyway I could help me
Thanks man! Super helpful😁
Awesome! Thanks for the tutorial
Great tutorial 👍🏽👏🏼
This is a really good intro video!!!
I'm glad that you have found it helpful!
Do these plans come with checklists to help get familiar with where and how to start it up?
Thank's for your great tuto !
thank you
I'm starting to understand what you're saying :D
Dc service does not come on with the battery. DC service is used as a maintenance function :)
I’ve had this for the second time when I did a flight now that I couldn’t lift up because the plane simply didn’t want to get in the air. I did everything like you did. I’ve watched several startup videos. All weights were supposed to be Okay. The Trim was set. It was set to 8.9 up tho which sounds kinda weird to me but it was green. Once I finally get up in the air when I set the trim way higher than it was originally set the plane doesn’t want to climb and slowly goes down crashing into the ground. For me this is an indication that I’m way too heavy which is very frustrating since simbrief did all the calculating and I chose the CRJ 700 preset and all the numbers seem okay... do you have any idea or hint ?
Check your centre of gravity. Sounds like its wayyy too forward for where it needs to be!
@@Drawyah I've set it completely back to 35% in FS settings plus I always trimmed it as the EFB told me to...
I hope there will be a SIMBRIEF button to import it automaticlly to the aircraft.
Nice job. Thank you!
How do you adjust the quick instrument views? Also can you no longer free look from a quick view?
Also is there a really big dead zone on the throttle? I have to push my thtustmaster throttle to almost 50% before it registers on the crj.
The quick view intruments I have set custom. You need to calibrate your throttles on the CRJ EFB.
@@Drawyah okay, thanks. I'll need to learn how to do custom cameras (I knew how to do in Xplane but MSFS still a mystery).
Good to know about the calibration on the EFB. I'll try that out after my A32NX flight from Brazzaville, Congo to Nairobi, Kenya.
Very nice dude!
I didn't see at all how you adjust the take-off trim on the ecam. From the video perspective it just magically changes.
I'm using the trim binding on the keyboard which needs to be assigned.
Nice plane! I am still working on the throttle ,getting it right! Cant seem to get my TCA Q- Airbus Thrustmaster to sink with the CRJ,s throttle, maybe have to wait for a update for that to happen?? nice video!!
Same issue..stuck till we get an update
Make sure you are aligning for dual-throttle levers, not single.
When i make the flight plan it doesn't load into the vfr map someone knows how to fix it?
What button do u use to adjust your take off fuel trim on the display ?
Fuel trim?
Hello friend, what is the version of your crj please ? in the performance page in the efb, you color is green, mine is blu, how to change that please ?
Great video and thank you very much! I started with my own FP but followed along. Was in cruise, at FL340 and she kept ballooning, going down to FL320 then up to FL360....it seemed it was always looking for FL340....I tried touching the throttle, ever so slightly to adjust, but simply got tired of chasing the needle and shut the flight down. Any suggestions?
Fly climbing with speed, not VS. Check your flaps too.
Hey thanks for the video! Just have one quick question, if there any discontinuitys on the legs pages do we delete them? And one more question, when I takeoff and set the lnav it dosent follow the path, I’m %100 sure I did everything right I even loaded up the plane 3 different times and still didn’t want to follow it?Thanks!
You don't delete, rather copy and paste waypoints into these gaps. As for the first plan if the aircraft struggles to follow, Direct yourself to the next available waypoint.
@@Drawyah Thank you so much means a lot!
Thanks very much for this!
Thank you, glad this tutorial helped!
Damn good tutorial. But I noticed you did not set the STAR for Bremen. Or did I miss it?
I set the STAR for Bremen during the approach tutorial for the CRJ.
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What did you do to set the stab trim? Can’t find the adjustment and it makes takeoffs...interesting
Yes, where did you adjust it, which knob?
Keyboard
Num 1 nose up
Num 7 nose down
@@srwilliams628 And on laptop without num pad? :D
@@Magyar9Andras it’s just a default key binding so it can be changed to anything you like very easy in the controls menu
Where are you getting this information to put into the FMS for the flight plan? The route it shows me when I make a flight plan in FS does not include things like airways or departure patterns.
As explained at the start of the video I use simBrief to create flightplans.
@@Drawyah Thanks. Is it adequately programmable with the ingame flightplan tools or do you have to use simbrief to make it function correctly?
Hey mate, I’m following your tutorial exactly only I’m in cry 900 flying out from EDDF to EDDM,, when I get to the part that I have to click apu power switch, nothing happens not seeing apu inbite appear, on the right screen bottom left it says APU door and then 4 broken yellow lines, do u know why this is? Much appreciated thanks
That should be okay to start, Bite is only a startup motion, as soon as the door is open you can start APU.
@@Drawyah hey man, thanks for the reply... It wasn't starting no matter what I did put I unplugged my current warthog hotus cause I got the Honeycomb one and now it all of a sudden works, must of been a button automatically mapped that was interfering with it or something not sure.. Anyways thanks again for your vids
Hi! From where do you recommend to buy this aircraft? By the inside game marketplace or by the Aeorosoft store?
I have this from the Aerosoft store.
Awesome video, but how do you taxi this? It's not recognizing my yokes rudder knob at all. It only works with the default trim MSFS has which ruins taxiing. Any help?
Calibrate through the EFB.
@@Drawyah Which part of the EFB? I can only find throttle calibrations.
Hello mate, a question, if i select my Sid i want to take off, it always wants a Transiton also, if i select the one i like everything is connected fine to the waypoint, but if i click EXEC it messes up everything and the dep sids just leads me nowhere near my waypoints..
Make sure waypoints are not doubling up and there are no discontinities.
Hey mate! On my vspeeds page, I don't actually get any speeds, just 3 little dashes..do you know how to fix this? Thanks!
Ensure that your approach has been set.
My fav plane from fsx.
2:43 You turned on all the Anti ice stuff, I’m guessing you don’t have to do that but I was just wondering why you cut it out and stuff.
I cut it as you weren't supposed to. Skip anti-ice.
There must be an bug with the engine start button. I dont get a white light after pressing start and my engine will not start. When i press strg+e engines will start. Ive done everthing like in the video...
Click on the APU power button, then the second starter will work.
what button to you use to adjust the takeoff trim? It's not completely obvious in the tutorial. Also whenever I'm on descent the nose starts pitching up super high. Does anyone know why?
Numpad 7 and 1 control trim, if you're pitching up increase speed as you're stalling.
@@Drawyah thanks so much!
Nicely done
Thank you!
great video!!! How did you get the flight levels next to each point on the flight plan??
You need to set up your Performance and VNAV as shown in this very video...
@drawyah yep i know just double checking
Great video. I bayed from game marketplace. On 6:50 when I enter for FL "300" I got "INVALID ENTRY". What do I wrong?
Noob question here. All the other planes have it automatically entered in so I don’t have to do it. Is there a way I can do it with this plane or do I have to manually enter it in.
Are you talking about entering a flight plan? If so, you can load flight plans created in Simbrief. There is a YT video that explains how
@@patricks8876 I understand that you can use simbreif but I am an amateur so I usually use one of the flight plans in game. It doesn’t automatically show up on the FMS like it would if I were flying the airbus. After doing some further research I do not think this plane is compatible with doing that.
Wondering why not all of the points in my route generated by simbrief are in available in the fmc, keep getting “not in database” or “not found” any ideas?
“Licks” and “chins3” for specific examples
The simBrief AIRAC cycle is outdated, Microsoft Flight Simulator is current. You can get a Navigraph subscription to match both.
Good tutorial
Very nice mate
Im assuming no callouts v1 v2 rotates?
Cheers
No callouts at this time, better keep an eye on that airspeed indicator!
When I start the plane it always says "steering inop" and I can't steer. Does anyone know what I have to do ?
I know you mentioned that the speed management is much more manual. However i don't know why, but the "speed limiter" or what the button is called simply doesnt work for me. My plane is either accelerating way too much but if i reduce the speed and don't pay too much attention, the speed quickly drops below 160 knots. I don't know how to maintain a speed level yet.
Otherwise your video really helped me a lot. Especially with starting up the APU :D
There is no speed limiter, the CRJ has no autothrust. When I that speed management is key, I'm referring to how you manually control your throttle speed.
Flight simulator just had a update and right? And when the update was finish I had to update one of my planes and it was updateing and All of a sudden the update just stop at the end. and when I rebooted the game back up and try to update the plane again and I thought it was done updateing and when I tried to Select a plane it was missing I look on my files and it was there in my files but it’s missing in the aircraft selection do u know how to get it back
How do you know how much cargo you have? Like from the front /rear.
is this CRJ fully functional like PMDG etc etc ?
Yes, the functionality of the Aerosoft CRJ is rather fantastic!
HOW CAN YOU MOVE THE CAMERA LIKE THIS IN THE FLIGHT DECK????? PLEASE TELL ME I M HAVING A VERY HARD TIME ...
Check your caps lock, I think it's stuck.
It's not too difficult to search on how to do.
ua-cam.com/video/OAscNE8LBRU/v-deo.html
👩✈Excellent instruction.
I'm glad this helped!
How to you ajust the t.o trim position?
There’s something wrong with the pitch, some weird reason my yoke glitches out, I let my stick go, the nose dives, I did trimming etc