On Nov 19, 2015, at 8:08 PM, dennis hipperson <[email protected]> wrote: > Upon landing I was able to go to the cockpit and ask Captain Egan what had > happened. > He said we were in wave and the speed brakes and engines were doing their job > of > controlling speed and that at one point we nearly went through VNE !!!!!
At FL040 a few hours out from London, an A380 would be simultaneously within a handful of knots of Vne and a handful of knots of Vs. Speeding up and slowing down would both be something you’d want to do very carefully (which, I assume, the flight management systems take care of gently :-) - mark _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
