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Decent rate penalties
EHM-1570 Bruce:
I have just flown a flight in the Airbus 310 Cargo, and have incurred penalties for a high descent rate (over 4500 ft/min), however the descent rate was never set above 3000ft/min. Could this be due to the fact that the default B734 panel is used in this aircraft?, and settings do not correspond to Airbus settings, the flap settings are totally different.
EHM-0654 Murray:
In similar "news", I forgot to turn on landing lights before 10,000 on the flight back from Marseilles just now, but picked up a "no landing lights at takeoff" penalty? Go figure!
EHM-1570 Bruce:
I have just flown the Fokker 70 and picked up penalties for an excessive descent rate (over 4500 ft/min), the vertical speed was never set above 2500 ft/min
EHM-0005 Maarten:
I fly the Fokker 70 quite often and I noticed that the AP exceeded 4500 fpm, but I set it to 4200 fpm. This only happens when just engaged the AP.
EHM-1281 Cyriel:
I have had penalties for this as well. Autopilot logic in FS first seems to go to descent at a rate above the one set in the autopilot. After that it will adjust to the rate set in the autopilot.
Solution is to start at around 1800fpm and then increase to the level wanted. I'm not sure what real life descent rates are btw but 1800fpm is usually more then adequate for me.
Anyone knows what a real life descent profile looks like?
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