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Old 1st Aug 2008, 00:45
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Bullethead
 
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Way back in the BODs, bad old days, most aircraft cruised a fair bit faster than LRC and to decellerate to LRC gave a considerable gain in arrival fuel, although a longer sector time.

LRC is faster than MaxRC and was artificially set at 99%MRC, ECON is in the middle somewhere.

These days aircraft ECON speeds are a little slower that LRC and thus more fuel efficient.


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