Originally Posted by
FlyingStone
I only have couple of thousand hours on the NG, so I'm not going to claim I know everything (or anything for that matter), but what's wrong with flying the manuevering speeds for any flap settings?
It doesn’t always work with what ATC wants. ATC speeds (180 till...) with appropriate flaps (many times flaps 1) is not enough drag on the glide. At least in our ops...