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Originally Posted by MDPilot  Also known as "How to be an even bigger roadblock in the skies than a CRJ is now."
Do you have any idea how much extra fuel a 767 burns because we can't speed up and do an unrestricted climb to cruise because a slow CRJ is in front of us out of ATL? I'll gladly give you a few hundred pounds credit if you'll just speed up!! |
It's not that we don't want to speed up, as you probably already know the 200 is a dog. Our climb profile is 290/.74 and I always stick to that. If we're heavy and it's hot we'll start to dog out before the flight levels. If it's heavy, warmer than standard, and we've got the ice protection on it's doubtful we can do 500 FPM. If we're slowing up a long line of traffic I'll usually just level off if we can't do 290 in the climb while climbing at 500 FPM.