Originally Posted by
pineteam
Thank you for that input Starbear. Do you have any reference? I don’t doubt your saying, it makes sense. Would be interested to know more about it. Thank you.
Now that is more of a challenge these days but I will try later (just going out). My knowledge comes from many years of teaching this stuff combined with research. I use to have access to a wonderful set of manuals which were the maintenance engineers course notes (the Maintenance manuals also useful but sometimes too unwieldy for this stuff).
In the meantime if you happen to be due in the simulator on almost any "modern" aeroplane, ask if you can set up an early Altitude capture by inducing a high ROC withA/P engaged and then when Alt * or equivalent is annunciated, reduce a thrust lever to idle and watch the aeroplane's behaviour. If in an Airbus wait and see what happens close to Vls