Descent management
Good evening guys, i would like your opinion. On A319 I rarely fly managed descent, of course in empty and free airspace i can use but in most of european airspaces I never use. I generally use either des or open des until maximum the reduction to 250kts then I usually go for V/S and follow heightx3 + 1 to Decel down to Sspeed +/- 1kt for each 10kts of headwind. It works quite good then at20nm, or 2000ft above platform altitude i start decelerating and try to perform a continuos descent. Using Des mode down to platform altitude I think is a bit too conservative because I level off for a few miles, then in airspaces such as london is quite impossible using. How do you usually perform descent? Differently or almost in the same way as me. Some colleagues love following managed des all the way down some others no
Last edited by easymxp; 2nd Jan 2014 at 23:37.