Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
Because it’s terribly inefficient and demonstrates poor airmanship. Sort of like flying around with the boards out and the throttles up.
When our cockpits become democracies I’ll follow your advice.
Unless you are 20+ miles out flaps 5 240kts is not that inefficient and retracting the flaps in the approach environment on a slick wing plane like the 73 doesn't sound optimal. All this does fall into the realm of technique and is trivial. Enough that I wouldnt say anything unless it was absurd like 40 miles out.
Since we are on the topic of inefficiency, verbally verifying the WDR when both pilots clearly can read it silently and independently is what I call terribly inefficient
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