Afew Gen Questions on the BAE

[louross]

Hope you can help me here:
The Thrust Mgt Sys: MCT is max except take-off and TGT is for cruise?

Any info on cruise altitudes? Example, I was at FL 250, OAT -30*C (ActiveSky), 249 ias and Mach.595 @ 83 thou pounds. Does that sound normal, or should I have been higher? Lower?
Thanks,
lr.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

The BAe 146/ARJ is the only HJG hosted aircraft which I'm still not, yet, fully familiar with .... so .... any advice I provide regarding it is going to be uncharacteristically (of me) limited !

"MCT" .... is "Maximum Continuous Thrust".

I think "TGT" is "Tailpipe Gas Temperature" .... for each engine isn't it

All I can tell you .... and which might help answer part of your query .... is as follows ....

In the realworld, and according to New Zealand crews, when we had the BAe146-300 in service here. These aircraft are apparently underpowered. We'd routinely fly them at around FL310 to FL330 (depending on conditions) .... working them harder (flying them faster) than most other airlines might because ANSETT NEW ZEALAND (later to become the short-lived QANTAS NEW ZEALAND), whom operated these aircraft here, was essentially competing with Air New Zealand B737-200's (and later B737-300's too) on the same routes. I recall the ANSETT NEW ZEALAND pilots (some of whom had flown the B737-100 and -200 when these were in service with the airline too) saying .... "the Wisperliner (BAe 146) just lacks the punch of a B737 at altitude"

There is .... or should be .... a very extensive manual accompanying the BAe 146 panel which we host here .... by Mathias LEIBRECHT.

This may provide you with more specific reference data .... if you care to study it carefully.

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[louross]

Yes, I have copied and read the manual, am now studying it. Thanks for your information, it is helpful.
lr.