Descent Profile
Can one of you guys flying the heavy metal please advise what a typical descent profile would be for a modern jet airliner from cruising altitude? Say you are cruising at 35000 ft mach 0.8 and are at top of descent ..... what would a typical vertical speed be when reducing altitude and do you reduce the air speed back or maintain air speed during the descent.
At what point do you start to slow the thing down?
Thanks.