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Old 4th May 2009, 11:20
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NigelOnDraft
 
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The speeds would have been out by double figures, and a good airman should have noticed.
You clearly have never dealt in Airbus' system of Perf Calcs

There is no logic to the Speeds / Flap setting used... Even on 1 type, you cannot get a "feel" for what the figures should be. Try flying 3 or 4 variants, and much as I would like to be able to "gross error check" the figures, all you can do is type whatever the printer/computer spits out. Your control of the situation is checking the data input(s).

Not safe or satisfactory IMHO, but we are just the employees at the end of the chain

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