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Old 28th Apr 2016, 21:34
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NutherA2
 
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Where the Spey lost out against the 79 was at high super sonic as the ramps were not programmed.
I don't know where this misunderstanding comes from; the FG1 ramps (I never flew the FGR2) certainly were. IIRC they started to move as we accelerated through Mach 1.4
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