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Old 11th October 2004 | 13:29
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FlexibleResponse
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From: GC Paradise
if you want to save some gas, drop the cabin descent rate to 250' per minute, that starts you down sooner but saves a couple of hundred kee's of gas.
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Be careful of the little white lies that the FM tells. I think you will agree that basic jet engine performance theory tells us that an early descent will cost more fuel?

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