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Old 21st September 2023 | 06:00
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stilton
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Recommended altitude wasn’t originally in our 757/67 FMCs

We had optimum and max, normally you wouldn’t want to go higher than 2000 above optimum so leaving that parameter in as a baseline is still useful
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