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Old 6th Sep 2022, 14:27
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Originally Posted by B2N2
The fact the aircraft continued to climb indicates it was on autopilot and simply did what it was programmed to do.
Climb to preset altitude and fly programmed route.
No . The 551 is a fine but elderly bird without fancy stuff like autothrottle or sophisticated vnav . If he would faint at significantly lower altitudes during climb and leave the aircraft alone without further advancing throttles and reducing vs when getting higher the aircraft would simply run out of IAS and stall.

This is especially true when we realize that asking a 551 on a hot spanish summer day with full tanks straight away to fl 360 is on the upper edge of performance and the last thousands are going sloooowly.

The climbout was at least very close to top of climb pilot assisted .
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