Originally Posted by Bubbers
We had a situation in an MD80 on a short flight and my captain got a little slow at 36,500ft so called it out and he used alt hold and MCT to regain speed but it was too late. Using MCT actually lowered our N1 and we started to get buffeting so descended at 500 fpm.
Originally Posted by
latetonite
How can any prolonged setting be higher then Max Continuous?
It can't. I think he's made up too many war stories and gets them confused.