Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Trying to learn, past the office hours, how to fly the airplane effectively without VNAV gizmos is frowned upon. Who is the magenta child here?
But then I should know better than to feed a troll.
But then again no reason to overly complicate things.
What I tell my trainees, is to plan approaching 10.000’ at 40 track nm out, high speed. Then you have just the distance needed for slow down and manuevers.