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Old 7th Apr 2014, 23:07
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Originally Posted by Becalmed
Anything above that is arguably too high to start panicking anyway so touch nothing and refer to the QRH or ECL.
That's the point; down low it doesn't matter much what you set, with a large margin between Vmin and Vmax.

Up high, speed is far more critical, and I cannot see that those numbers will cause anything but severe grief. Still, nobody has actually said what the Memory Item says...

Originally Posted by Gas Path
The 787 can calculate airspeed from gross weight, flap and slat position, AofA and GPS altitude.
What airspeed? It's unreliable.
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