X-Crafts has released a large update to their popular ERJ Family of aircraft, a series including all five of the main variants of the aircraft family: The E135; Legacy 650; E140; and the E145/E145XR.

The series was launched back in May 2019 and has since been purchased by users in over 140 countries.

The ERJ is a regional jet manufactured by Embraer and is used by many airlines such as United and American Airlines as a versatile regional jet which can seat 37 to 50 passengers depending on the variant.

The developer also touched upon their EJets product, the product has recently had a lack of updates due to the developer dedicating more time to their ERJ Family product.

“You may be asking if we've forgotten the EJets. We have definitely not forgotten and I will soon be sharing some exciting news about what X-Crafts has been up to in the past year! Stay tuned!”

The full changelog can be found below:

FMS

• You can now select and edit the waypoint that you are flying towards.  
• Direct To (DRCT --> ) now proceeds directly to the waypoint selected from your present position.
• Rewrote the distance/time calculation on PERF 2.  This should now accommodate *any* flight plan design from airport to airport (no other waypoints) to any combination of SID, STAR and/or ROUTE in between.
• Trim settings now specific to each aircraft
• Fixed warning for "no waypoints found situation" when loading a .fms file.
• Single waypoint ROUTE's now possible - removed error checking routine that would automatically delete the ROUTE if there was only one waypoint.
• Rewrote the data entry validation for the AUTOPILOT, WAYPOINT EDIT and PERF2 airspeed entry fields.  These will now accept Mach entered either as two digits or decimal.  (Any value less than 100 KIAS is treated as Mach.)
• Revised the min/max MAC% and added these values to the data entry warning.
• Updated maximum fuel load data entry for ERJ-135, ERJ-140 and ERJ-145 to agree with ACF stored values.

General

• Fixed Librain integration. (Librain won’t work in Vulkan for now, but hopefully, soon a new version will come up which will make it compatible with Vulkan rendering.)
• Added corrected Librain objects for ERJ-135, ERJ-140 and Legacy 650.  Passengers will now see rain on all passenger windows in the ERJ Family!
• More efficient SASL3 update and drawing functions.  These script sections are no longer active if the specific menu item is not active.
• All preferences (configuration, settings) files are now located in the aircraft plugins folder.  All can be deleted to restore default values - new files are recreated on aircraft loading if these prefs files are not found - just like X-Plane.
• Cleaned up the ERJ Settings "version banner" when there's difficulty determining the current online version.
• Cleaned up version checking warnings to something more specific and less scary.
• Better prevention of ground equipment appearing when aircraft is moving (does not apply to SASL load/activation failures).
• Restored the GNS430 update "readme" graphic in all required locations.
• Updated the Legacy 650 column on page 11 of the aircraft manual to reflect correcct specification values.
• Updated the deflection time for gear steering. Previously the nose wheel would turn instantly, now it turns with a slight delay. You may need to readjust your joystick settings.
• Speedbrake deploy time modified to reflect the real aircraft. (Deploy in around 1 sec, retract in around 4 secs)

Interface

• FMS and Checklist popout positions persist - either when opened and closed during the same session or to the next time the aircraft is loaded.
• The FMS and Checklists popouts now close cleanly.  If the screen width is a multiple of 1920, the mouse will not disappear when near the left edge of the monitor.
• Menu tab hot zone now wider for 4K users.
• Created custom commands to bring up Checklists and Operations

• XCrafts/ERJ/toggle_menu_tabs
• XCrafts/ERJ/show_operation
• XCrafts/ERJ/show_checklists

VR

• Added hot spot in the empty space just under the MASTER WARNING light and to the right of the GUST LOCK light to be able to toggle the menu tabs in VR.
• Added VR version of menu tabs. 
• Checklists, Operations and FAQ will now pop-up in VR when selected from the menu.
• Added a command to toggle the menu tabs in VR:  XCrafts/ERJ/toggle_menu_tabs

FMOD

• Cabin announcements reset between flights.
• High-Speed alert modified.

To update the aircraft, users are encouraged to completely re-download the aircraft to mitigate issues that may arise from updating the aircraft with the Skunkcrafts updater.

The X-Crafts ERJ Family -which includes all the products in the family- is available to purchase for $89.95 at X-Plane.org Store.