Originally Posted by
clunckdriver
they were way back and should have been flying VRef plus whatever increment is called for by the configuration they were in at the time, they wernt even in the same ball park.
Stick shaker activation without the INCR REF switch being turned on would have been 114Kts. Their bug was set at 118 and they were flying at 130 at the time of the upset. They would have landed without incident if it wasn't for the INCR REF switch being turned on. The pilots forgot or didn't know to factor this in. Colgan is saying that they shouldn't be able to set the bug at 118 when the shaker activation will be 134. That's the way I'm reading this.