Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
You don't need to keep the exact speed but to allow your speed to decrease below the target speed by up to 15 knots and then let the aircraft bung on a bag full of thrust just looks and feels horrendously gash and inaccurate. Standards!
My thoughts are to keep the speed at your target speed as a minimum with absolutely minimal but timely thrust increases (oh my, you might have to monitor it a bit), which are usually only temporary, but to allow your speed to increase over the target speed, if it needs to, but without it getting to the point where you get an overspeed disconnect.
Just because the autopilot is in doesn't mean you can't and shouldn't be flying it.
With the update to common VNAV, plane no longer gives a over speed disconnect