I alsways find it useful when I hear the flaps running out - then I know it's time to stop reading the book as we are approaching the funny hard stuff that we have to sit on. So then we can get the go-juice and go somewhere else!
I have liked the 146 (purely as pax) from my first ride in it, which would have been late 1987, when it was introduced on the LHR ~ IOM run.
Great machine, looks good on the ground and in the air. Get's up and goes and does neatly. I have heard all the gripes about it but then but this machine gave birth to many RJ ops, I am sure.