As an aside: Is your Va close to, or at Vno? (In the old days we called
Va "Rough Air Penetration Speed" now it is called, rather inappropriately
I think; "maneuvering speed". I may be misnterperting your message and if
I am, my apologies. From your message it appeared that you are concerned
about staying out of the yellow arc vs staying in the green arc in rough
air. Can I then I assume your Vno and Va are close to each other?

Crap -- you made me dig out my POH. (That hasn't happened in a while!)

From Wikepedia:

a.. VA: design maneuvering speed (stalling speed at the maximum legal
G-force, and hence the maximum speed at which abrupt control movements will
not cause the aircraft to exceed its G-force limit).

- Va in our plane is 138 mph, and is not depicted on the ASI.

While Vo is:

a.. VNO: maximum structural cruising speed (the maximum speed to be used in
turbulent conditions).

On our plane, that's 156 mph (136 knots), which is the start of the "Yellow
Arc". Since our plane cruises at 142 knots (at 23 squared), we're always
aware of this airspeed.

Now that we've established all this, what did you want to know?
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