I was on flight radar looking at the transatlantic flights, and then I noticed that they were exceeding 550 KTS groundspeed. Now as the Laura has shown high altitude winds are being worked on. This will mean we will have to fly at unrealistic airspeeds just to stop our planes from exceeding 550kts groundspeed. The fastest transatlantic crossing by a subsonic plane got up to 647kts GS.
I would like to hear people’s thoughts.
Good point there. Check groundspeedrecords ( the website )! There you can see why we may get into trouble. However I’m now confused if our Airspeed is limited or the groundspeed …
This may only be for intermediate altitudes (FL100-300) to stop the ridiculous current situation of people flying at 550GS+ at 15,000ft.
Can’t imagine it being an issue at high altitudes with strong winds, have to see what the devs. come up with
The 550 ground speed restriction rule was only temporary. They will most likely implement something a bit more realistic when global flight comes out.
Agreed, 550GS pretty much became irrelevant for Airliners when violations were added for +M.87.
I wish people would stop referencing it as if it were gospel.
The 550 GS only was applicable up to 40,000MSL. I would speculate the overspeed violation being tied closer with the overspeed warning system rather than the 550GS below 40,000MSL as that seems to be the direction that have taken with the implimentation of an overspeed warning system.
We only introduced the GS restriction to prevent people flying 748s 1000 kts GS from KLAX to KSAN. A more realistic solution will be developed as global comes closer.
I always thought that overspeed is unrealistic…
I would anticipate a different solution, with centres opening up for long distance flights, they’re probably going to be assigning speeds for each aircraft.
Only if following specific routes.
A more realistic solution already exists but does need some tweaking such as different MMO for different planes. CCX shouldn’t be limit to M.87 on training and expert but .94 which is its true MMO IRL.
Whenever I’m in a 777 around 37000 feet I’m nearly stalling they need to fix this
For sure, there really isn’t a need for speed restrictions on aircraft flying outside established tracks. There isn’t that much to smash into.
550GS is unnecessary if u are travelling only like 50 nm
Thats why its enforced right now
You’re not almost stalling, you’re moving at a good speed based off your Mach number. Your IAS is just displaying low because the air is thinner at that altitude.
No it literally says approaching stall
Your plane is too heavy. Drop cruising altitude or lighten load.
Then you’re overweight, heavy planes have to use step climbs as they burn fuel to get to higher altitudes.
Oh that’s cool I never heard about that but that will only work in global flight
But it isn’t. You get violations for M.87+ which is at max about 530Gkts using current wind speeds.
