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Old 27th May 2015, 11:17
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JeroenC
 
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Step climb departure best practices

The danger with the Boeing procedure (setting the highest SID alt in the MCP) is if you are high perfomance due whatever reason, you might have to revert to VS mode to reduce your climb rate to below 1500ft/min, which might lead to a level bust.
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