Thread: Rules of thumb
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Old 27th August 2008, 10:37   #7 (permalink)
babemagnet
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Belgium
Age: 33
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Nice Rulles of thumb:

5 times your groundspeed is the VS you need on a 3 degrees glideslope example groundspeed is 150 times 5 is 750 feet per minute descent

6 times the altitude you are flying you can receive the atis or a vor example you fly 30,000 feet 6 times 30 is 180 nm you can receive atis or vor (in good conditions no mountains etc etc)
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