"resume normal speed"
Just a quick question to the pilots out there.
When you have been given a speed to fly by a controller on the previous sector i.e. "speed 290kts or less" and the next controller does not require you on a speed and so gives the instruction "resume normal speed".
Do you take it to mean,
1. It does not matter what speed you fly the aircraft as long as you obey the speed limit point ( if following a STAR ) and 250kts below FL100
or
2. It does not matter what speed we fly and we can disregard the S.L.P. etc