Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Maddox max is obviously right. Some play with the CI, most just over write it.
On an MD88, my guess is you would have to turn off the autothrottles and autopilot to fly a constant anything.
We have an approved tolerance for airspeed variation thank you very much. The tolerance is the Mach number set and it can range from Vs-15 to Vmo+10.
Anything greater and we take the window shades down and turn off Netflix and get to work.