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"Requesting lower"
So here's the deal. You're at 11,000 feet doing say 120 knots over the
ground and your sea level destination is 100 nm ahead. It's late, ATC is quiet, very little traffic, CAVU, you're pretty sure centger will give you whatever you ask for. What would you ask for? I figure something like this: If I go downhill at 200 feet a minute at my cruising speed it's going to take 5 minutes a thousand feet or 50 minutes to get to pattern altitude. "Hey Center, Mooney XYZ requesting lower -- can you give me cruise at 5000?" If they say yes I'll back off the throttle, the airplane is already trimmed for the right speed, and start down. Close to 5000 feet I'll ask for lower and continue down, maintaining my en route cruise. I'd for sure be managing airpseed, CHT, mixture, and so forth -- I look at those things every time the altimeter unwinds another 500 feet. What would you do? |
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