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Old 03-21-2009, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by RU4692 View Post
descending through 11000 for <10000 over 300kts, if you pull to idle and set VS for 800-900 ft per min, you will to slow to 250 right at 10K.
or level at 10,000, and you'll lose 10kts IAS for each mile at idle thrust. A 320kt descent would therefore need to be level and at idle thrust 7 miles from the fix you want to be at 250kts.

I also just build a fix of ABC/-7 so that the snowflake will provide guidance.
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