2000fpm is not even a "normal" rate of descent in a jet. At 450kts, 2000fpm
is less than a 3% gradient!

Mike
MU-2


"Doug" wrote in message
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If you are directly over the airport you can land at, then follow the
emergency decent procedures for that plane (and they differ from plane
to plane) and come down about 2000 fpm (I really don't know, and it
would depend on the plane), but lets use that figure. Then it would
take 21 1/2 minutes to get down and maybe 1 1/2 minutes in the pattern
and 1 minute of taxi, so that is 23 minutes, assuming the airport is at
sealevel. That would be fast.