Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
How in the absolute shizz, after Colgan 3407, are pilots STILL not minding the store when it comes to airspeed?!?
There's more to it than that.
Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
I have no idea. Anybody that cruises less than .70 in a 200, or less than .74 in a 7/900 is an idiot. To totally checkout and not notice a decaying speed event is pure incompetence.
Those are reasonable numbers, and check with my own experience.
Company assigned cruise speeds (ECON) can be MUCH lower than what many experienced CRJ pilots would consider prudent. Folks who comply with ECON speeds blindly have little to no margin at the bottom and would therefore need to maintain a MUCH higher level of attentiveness than is the norm for jet aircraft in cruise flight. Like 100% attentiveness.