Originally Posted by
Agile
The interesting thing about VNE in "level flight":
1/ at sea level there is not enough power to get to 152kts; at 10,000 ft there is not enough power to get to 125kts.
2/ at 10,000ft the vibration level that you get, the colective position, they all come in a way that 125kts feels like 152kts.
unless you are thick and only look at the indicated speed, its not such a pitfall.
Trust me there are some thick people around sometimes through no fault of their own but the hapless victims of substandard training.
Also some folks have been happily flying an airframe at sea level in a cool environment for years and thousands of hours with an altimeter that has never indicated over 2000 feet being thrust into a high altitude, high temp environment and expected to do wonderful things.