Originally Posted by
theNotoriousPIC
You might be right, but might be wrong. For my aircraft Embraer decided that flying above FL200 with flap out was too dangerous because of critical mach and buffet problems. They state multiple times in the AOM (and my airline repeats in SOP) that this limitation is not to be exceeded. The QRH says in all instances that if we have a flap retraction issue that FL200 is our top altitude.
Your embraer won't crash. Don't ask how I know.