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Old 22nd Nov 2007, 11:17
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FullWings
 
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In the manuals I'm looking at, Long Range Cruise is defined as giving 99% of best range. On that basis, I would infer that there are more economical speeds to fly at than LRC.

This seems to have some truth in it as on the 777 LRC is always > ECON @CI=0 (200kt headwinds excepted...)
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