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Old February 11th, 2008, 21:29   #10
Cptnchia
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Default Re: How airliners climb

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Originally Posted by SoCalAprch View Post
You didn't answer my question about what climbs at .75. Thats alot better than our little ERJ can do. So how if your profile is .75 and mine is .56 would that do anything for ATC. If anything I think it will piss ATC off as your gonna be coming up behine me pretty fast.
No wonder I'm always getting slowed down and vectored around regional jets! By the way, the 757/767 will climb at .75. The ERs will do even better than that. Of course I fly them domsetically, so we're alot lighter than what Doug is used to.
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