Why no American operators of the BAE - 146?

[airplane wizard]

I heard a conversion is being worked on. removal of the 4 apu's and hanging 2 CFM 56's in place.

Didn't the proposed RJ-100 have only 2 engines IIRC?

 

[Fubijaakr]

The worst thing about it was the rain repellent was piped inside the cockpit.

 

[relief tube]

Why are there no American Operators of the BAE - 146? Is it a good airplane?

dude cant be serious.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

I always wanted to fly the BAE-146. After a contract I did for Parc in the late 90s, I was returning to my airline whom I had taken leave from. Parc wanted me to keep working for them. They asked if there was any contract that I'd be interested in to keep me... offered me 747/ A340 type stuff, etc. I told them, I want to fly the Avro RJ. Huh? Yep, if ya' can't find me a gig on that plane then I'll just go back to my airline. And back I went. They weren't able to get me a job on one without time on type.

How is the cockpit on the 146? Looks comfortable.

I first flew them in 05. They were very comfortable. The pay was atrocious thanks to the blended payrate we have.... But from a strict pilot perspective as long as the fadec and trp worked it was outstanding. leaps and bounds better than the CRJ's that replaced them.... other than in the fuel burn/speed category....
I tried to get PARC to use me to fly the Avro's back to Europe but got furloughed without enough time in type. Besides unfortunately they pretty much used only captain/captain crews for the flights.....

 

[ThreeGreens]

One of the only airplane that I know of, where you could fly 250kts to 5NM final. Awesome airplane to fly.

 

[Freebrd]

ASA operated them years ago. 4 or 5 I think, most had 88 seats, one had 100 seats. DAL scope allowed ASA to get up to 20 of them. Lasted at ASA a year or three I think.

 

[Golden Falcon]

PSA had them for a while..(the ORIGINAL PSA) that is in Cal..they disappeared when they got absorbed by USAir..just weren't fast enough i guess..and the Lycoming fans had some issues as well...it was nicknamed the "Smurf-jet" or the "Fisher-price" jet..