Flying on the step?

"Dale" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Peter Duniho" wrote:



[emphasis mine] True...that's what's already been said. Though, in
truth,
if you you simply set cruise power, you would eventually accelerate to
the
desired cruise speed. It would just take a lot longer.

Well, no, you wouldn't. I know this from experience in the airplane

As long as you are above Vy, you will reach the same velocity no matter what
technique is employed. It is true that you can reach cruise speed sooner if
you clmib and then descend but you well end up at the same speed and will
end up taking more time to reach the point that cruise speed was obtained
with the level off and accellerate method. The teminal speed is where
thrust=drag and there is only two such speeds one below VY and one above it.

Actually at the absolute ceiling there is only one cruise speed (Vy) and, in
the case of supersonic aircraft there can be three but for the airplanes we
are considering this is irrelevent.


Mike
MU-2