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Old 22nd May 2009, 21:26
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Monom
 
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Why would you ever want to extend flaps above FL200? I remember some years ago (in the sim) having progressive HYD failure in cruise, ending in total HYD loss. As it is essential to get stable at the lowest possible speed (probably F5 Vref40) asp, an emergency decent was initiated to get below 200 in order to extend flaps. So that's why!
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