Originally Posted by
172510
In FLC mode the descent rate would be tuned with the Thrust Lever. A poor monitoring would have little consequence, it would just require a higher Thrust variation to get back to the desired descent path. In case of very high workload, you would set the thrust on the low side, and then reach you target altitude a little to soon, without any safety consequence.
What do you think?
I think you got that right. BUT: in these airspaces you usually also have altitude contraints to meet, agreed busting them is usually of less consequence then blasting through Vne, but still it comes down to:
stay alert and prepared. SP ops is sometimes really high workload (I still fly a KingAir B200 single hand, with Vne/Mne being not far from yours), so the key here is to make sure to have the setups etc done ASAP, free as much capacity as early as possible.