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Old 20th July 2006 | 17:18
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Ryanair

Somebody mentioned Ryanair, there's one thing that I have been wondering a long time by myself. Why do they always wan't to start their descent so early? One could think that it would be a lot more economical to start descent pretty late and make an idle-power descent to join the gp directly, but instead they start descent really early with a pretty big ROD and then they find themshelves flying at 2-3000 ft almost 10 minutes and as far as I know that is not an economical or fast way to fly a B737...


Sorry about the OT.
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