Originally Posted by skipro101

I am one of those "idiot captains". I wonder, did we fly together? Do you bring up this issue when you see it or do you keep quiet and mumble under your breath about it on forums?

You might want to read this FAA interpretation...

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...rpretation.pdf

Here is this good part...

"....the aircraft can in fact be CONFIGURED to operate in accordance with the speed restrictions...Therefore the pilot must operate the aircraft in the configuration to meet the requirements..."

Or said another way, if you can put flaps out to comply, then you must.

Or said yet another way, your minimum safe airspeed has nothing to do with you being CLEAN.

Now I get it, no one seems to give a F, and you have been doing it clean and accelerating past 200 for years. That's cool, do what you want, but don't disparage a pilot for following the regs. You are the one who is not in compliance.