Originally Posted by
BEagle
I recall when the 300 KIAS LL navex was first introduced. It was hard on pilots and airframe as the ride comfort was far worse than at 240KIAS and the controls were also much heavier. Also a standard 60 deg AoB turn would lose so much speed even with full throttle that it took an age to regain the correct speed. Another point was that the standard method of timing correction (add n knots for n sec late for TAS in nm/min) meant that being anything more than 5 sec late at a turning point would often mean exceeding max continuous rpm....
I didn't really see the point of the 300 KIAS LL navex as it didn't gain that much and really gobbled up fuel.
Funny that, it's not how I remembered it apart from the fuel bit. But then 3 years Nav training probably gave me a different perspective.