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Old 19th August 2024 | 23:52
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What is Min Flying Speed?
Never heard the term before.
Look at your Power Available Vs Power Required graph. PA line cuts through the PR curve in (usually) 2 places.

The one on the right is your max speed in level flight, the spot on the left is min speed, you must descend if you go slower. The higher you go, the PR curve moves up, and the PR line slides down. When it becomes a tangent, you only have one speed, but technically you can never reach that tangent as you need excess power to get there.
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