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Old 12th August 2009 | 07:12
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GlueBall
 
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Microburst2002 . . .

Are you a cadet pilot? Understand that there is no way, even for a test pilot, in a large transport category airplane to go from TOD at 35,000' to touchdown in only 10 minutes. You would need additional time to slow down, maneuver to line up, configure flaps. Even if this could be done, [airport and runway exactly where you want it] the cabin altitude would still be able to descent at a normal 500fpm from 5000' typical cabin altitude at FL350 to sea level in those 10 minutes; even during emergency descent at VMO and 6000' per minute. The cabin rate of descent has nothing to do with the airplane rate of descent, the packs don't stop working when the thrust levers are retarded and descent is initiated, the cabin rate can be manually set at whatever you want. As I said, you won't make it to touchdown in 10 minutes. But you can descend the cabin from 5000' cabin altitude to sea level at 500fpm in 10 minutes! Not an argument, just a statement of fact.

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