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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: Squawk 7700 on July 21, 2007, 08:11:37 PM
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United 52 on economy descent to save on gas, American 28 catching up. San Francisco arrival over the Pacific.
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save on gas
Good idea...
I took United 52 on my way back from Hawaii. Great flight.
I got to fly a 777 from SFO-DEN after that, it was a full flight, and I had the absolute middle seat. This is not an experience I recommend.
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This descent is nothing special. We do a similiar type of descent, just using the opposite philosophy. Stay up high then follow with an idle descent to keep speed up, rather than a shallow idle descent with slow speed. With gas prices the way they are, airlines have to do what they can
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Give that man a promotion, he's read his flight manual!
A 250kt VNAV SPD DES makes the whole situation go better. Also helps the 250 @ 10 restriction and a constant descent rate is much easier because it makes more efficent use of the avaliable air miles so .... no busting of altitude constraints.
As Fonzie would say, aaaaay!
Yes, I know, that was odd, I mean, when's the last time you heard anybody mention the Fonz? :roll:
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Give that man a promotion, he's read his flight manual!
Actually, he just read his dispatch..they fly the descent speeds assigned to them by their company.
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We don't put them on the dispatch release. Operating guidance comes from the flight manuals.
The ICAO format flight plan includes the mach number or TAS only.
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Nice Clip!