Remember my fear of a good, "high-performance" takeoff pull up (From Row 35A where I don't have an ASI nor yoke)?
Since I discovered that my smartphone GPS works in the airplane mode, I've been monitoring speeds.
It helps a LOT to NOT_see the speed decay as we point more and more upwards and rocket skyward!
Interesting observations: Often times as our altitude zooms, our speed creeps (if not downright marches) upward to really fat dumb and happy levels. In fact- I see very little speed stability in flight- except during cruise.
On a couple of takeoffs, we have slowed a bit (hitting ~140 kts) (as a contrast to the more typical 'ongoing speed up'). Of course, that's ground speed, so the airspeed might have been (ok, VERY LIKELY WAS) quite healthy.
On my very last flight during latter descent- I saw us hit~120 knots while clean- just before the flaps started out (E-170)- closer to landing we were back around 135-140 kts (again, ground speed and not air speed acknowledged.)
More often than not, we do not hit final approach speed until fairly short final (yeah, true IMC/ILS is an exception).
I still say that good attitude and good speed control are more important than AOA...just so long as it's not the ONLY thing you watch, and understand that pulling up hard with the stall warning going off is often a good way to stall
Since I discovered that my smartphone GPS works in the airplane mode, I've been monitoring speeds.
It helps a LOT to NOT_see the speed decay as we point more and more upwards and rocket skyward!
Interesting observations: Often times as our altitude zooms, our speed creeps (if not downright marches) upward to really fat dumb and happy levels. In fact- I see very little speed stability in flight- except during cruise.
On a couple of takeoffs, we have slowed a bit (hitting ~140 kts) (as a contrast to the more typical 'ongoing speed up'). Of course, that's ground speed, so the airspeed might have been (ok, VERY LIKELY WAS) quite healthy.
On my very last flight during latter descent- I saw us hit~120 knots while clean- just before the flaps started out (E-170)- closer to landing we were back around 135-140 kts (again, ground speed and not air speed acknowledged.)
More often than not, we do not hit final approach speed until fairly short final (yeah, true IMC/ILS is an exception).
I still say that good attitude and good speed control are more important than AOA...just so long as it's not the ONLY thing you watch, and understand that pulling up hard with the stall warning going off is often a good way to stall
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