Re: Best angle vs best rate
hawk37,
Read you loud and clear. It's difficult to be specic when replying to a generic statement. That's why I used such terms as "approximate", "vicinity of M0.75", and "SOME engines".
Frankly, I don't have specific information for the aircraft which I currently fly (B777 with very high bypass engines), but day to day experience shows me that if I reduce my climb speed from the 310-320 KIAS range to 270 KIAS in turbulence, the whole guts drops out of the climb.
The slight sarcasm that I poked at some other posters (on other threads) was in light of their statements that ram recovery was negligible, or none at all for the high bypass engine - ABSOLUTELY NOT SO!
One of the sad facts that I found bemusing from your post, where you referred to older aircraft "(maybe 727's, or older 737's?) ", was that the ram recovery on those JT8 engines was excellent at high speed, but the pre- super-crical wings on those aircraft negated the advantages of higher speed flight.
Regards Hawk et al,
Old Smokey