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Originally Posted by TheBills
Heres the catch though, what about all the times one would do a 4 deg. descent to add thrust to level off and fly at lets say 75% for awhile. On the other hand lets say you did 3 or 3.5 deg. for a slightly slower descent at 40ish % to get lower altitudes along the way and never having to add thrust to level off. I know theres many scenarios here but think about it company wide with all the different scenarios we get in a day how can we be sure that a 4.5 deg. glide is saving the company money.
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I see where you are coming from. I am sure they are basing this on the thought of a perfect world and perfect flight plan where you would stay as high as long as possible and then chop and drop and configure to land. Where safety and comfort are top on the list, I agree with the gradual descent profile. But they are also thinking of even if the chop and drop saves, lets say 10 gallons of fuel per flight; and there are how many flights per month?