Originally Posted by
JammedStab
Never actually tried that before. If the altitude is just an intentionally out of the way altitude entered in order to be able to get the speed entered as a restriction, wouldn't deleting that contstraint just change the commanded speed back to whatever is in VNAV? Might work.
Of course it works but you might unintentionally be removing an altitude constraint that is actually a valid one not just one put in to allow for speed entry.