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Old 28th Feb 2011, 19:40
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On the original subject, I did a little data gathering at work today.

Unfortunatly the red / black boxes are not always visible, being off the bottom of the scale in the cruise. I could however record the position of the yellow band which represents a 1.3 g manoeuver capability:

Fl 380 yellow band at 226 KCAS = 215 KEAS = M 0.72

FL 80 yellow band at 178 KCAS = 177 KEAS = M 0.31

I know weight effects it, but there was only 0.8% weight difference between the two readings.

So in EAS terms there was a about a 21% difference in the position of the yellow band between FL80 and FL 380.

In CAS terms the difference was about 27%
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