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06-21-2015 | 09:35 PM
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06-21-2015 | 09:43 PM
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Hopefully captains have the ballz to cancel when the WX gets bad.
06-22-2015 | 05:38 AM
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06-22-2015 | 05:41 AM
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We've had 15 low speed events this year. I'm not surprised.
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06-22-2015 | 05:44 AM
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06-22-2015 | 06:04 AM
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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.
06-22-2015 | 06:09 AM
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Eh, it can happen to anyone, I don't know how much inattention it takes but I'm guilty of inattention. But a couple speed events ago we as a pilot group should have thrown out ECON.
06-22-2015 | 06:19 AM
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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.
06-22-2015 | 06:22 AM
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No, I quite strongly disagree that it can happen to anyone. It hasn't and won't happen to me, as I'm a professional pilot that pays attention. I also don't do stupid crap like fly slow to increase block (which is really pointless by the time you're in the air anyway).
06-22-2015 | 06:28 AM
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There's more to it than that.
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.
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.
The vast majority of our pilots do the same... But as you said, the ECON speeds can throw off some who clearly don't know their craft very well. Honestly, I find this whole thing extremely embarrassing for our pilot group.
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