Originally Posted by
felixthecat
Agreed in the cruise, since the stall margin is much less. In the decent though, we were below MLW and had a large margin above stall. Accelerating seemed to be counter intuitive and surprised me.
The main point is whether you were experiencing severe turbulence or not at that moment.
Let's remember that:
"Severe turbulence causes large and abrupt changes in altitude and/or attitude and, usually, large variations in indicated airspeed. The airplane may momentarily be out of control. Occupants of the airplane will be forced violently against their seat belts."
Anything less than the above will be at best moderate turbulence which can be flown within the normal airplane operating range of speeds as adequate margins exist.