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16th May 2015, 09:40

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IAS is Q and is what the aircraft feels.

TAS is how fast you're actually travelling through the air mass.

GS is TAS +- wind component.

At a rough guess your IAS would've been 260-270 kts in the cruise. Probably lower than the IAS in the climb.

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