Heh. Good to know the address is the only part of aus-soaring that’s changed :-)
- mark On Nov 20, 2015, at 12:01 AM, Mike Cleaver <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually a few hours out from London he would be at FL400 - i.e. 40,0000 ft > pressure altitude. At FL 040 (4000 ft AMSL) he would be below the hill tops > in the Alps etc - but there isn't a lot of IAS difference between stall and > Vne at FL 400 and the 380 only reaches this level after several hours in > cruise if it was full at takeoff, though on a 14 hour leg they usually start > at 340 westbound ind 350 eastbound. > > Wombat > > On 19/11/2015 11:48 PM, Mark Newton wrote: >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
