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Old 24th Sep 2008, 01:56
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asymptotic flare

the term shows an engineering science background... asymptotic (from asymptote = literally, not intersecting ie something in the nature of a tangent) is a math buzzword and is what the flight path is doing as it curves from the climb to the cruise, approaching the cruise path progressively more gradually. Flare is an upside version of what you do during the landing or takeoff .. hence a fancy way of saying that you gently bunt over from the climb to adopt the cruise ....
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