Originally Posted by
zonoma
Getting a prop to overtake a jet at around 80nm to go? Even a Dash-8 Q400 would struggle with that, even if you were doing what you said.
It's not so much of a struggle if you get the jet to fly ridiculous, inefficient, speeds and extended routings though, is it? All you need is about 60kts speed difference, even without vectoring. Easy to achieve when you have us at 180kts with 40 miles to go.
Frustrating huh?
Are you paid to know that a high speed descent at flight idle is more efficient than a low speed descent at flight idle?
Why do you presume that slowing us down is more efficient?