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Old 24th Mar 2004, 13:42
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Giles Wembley-Hogg
 
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If the unmodified FMC speeds were used by the 757s and 767s operated by one British airline, then the 757s would come down at 0.79ish/277kts and the 767s would use 260kts almost the whole way down.

In practice most of us modify this to something of the order of 0.8/290 or 0.8/300. In turbulence we have to use 0.78/290 (Flying Manual restriction).

As I am sure you know, speed control is best used to maintain a gap rather than create one and it only works really well if the speeds are set up before the descent commences. I appreciate that as a South Banker you often get us fairly late from the French, so that will not always be possible.

Perhaps 757/767
Fast 0.8/320
Med 0.8/300
Slow 0.78/270

(As an aside, most of dislike flying much below 0.78. I think this is partly because we rarely operate there and partly because we need to check both the Mach graph and Vref+100 at those sort of speeds).

Hope this helps.

G W-H
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