Originally Posted by
Amadis of Gaul
I am not very smart, so I just use the 3:1 rule, wind be damned, works out pretty well the vast majority of the time. I feel like people who feel the need to complicate this any more than that are the same people whose coffee order at Starbucks is at least fifteen words.
10 years in the 320 series now, in case that matters.
Agreed, I’m not smart but I am old.
I plan for what I filed. If ATC gives us a shortcut or early speed reduction on a STAR which creates a problem with a restriction I just ask them if they want the altitude or airspeed at the next point (cause they aren’t going to get both)