Hi guys, I was wondering how long it takes you guys from top of descent to touchdown because when I do my flights I find myself doing 35 minute descents and 20 minute descents on different flights how do I regulate this?
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It can depends on a lot of factors:
- The speed you’re going
- The altitude you’re cruising
- The airport altitude
- The approach path
- If there’s ATC or other aircrafts
- The aircraft you’re using
But tbh, between 20 and 40min almost always the case. You can watch at the ETE to TOD if you choose VNAV at the bottom of your screen.
You can’t really regulate it.
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Alright Thanks!
Okay thanks to both of you
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So if your cruising at an altitude of 36,000 feet should your first fixed altitude be closer to your touchdown by example 4000 feet? Or should it be like a step approach from 36,000 to 31,000 to 28,000 by example? Which method goes faster? And which method do you guys use?
I find my descents are usually around the 20 minute mark. I tend to do continuous descents with TOD anywhere from 100-140nm out depending on final cruise altitude.
Do you use vnav?
It just isn’t that simple. You need to consider the distance between tjose waypoints, terrain, your airspeed (and need to reduce it), and if you want to procedure altitude restrictions. They’ll be a tutorial on it somewhere on here, I’ll see if I can find one
Alright thanks
Yes I use VNAV with the altitudes that I get from Simbrief.
Okay so on your VNAV the fixed altitudes? Are there multiple of them? Or is it straight from final cruising altitude straight to 4000 feet by example generally?
Simbrief gives an altitude for each waypoint - but the way Simbrief does it is it will tend to do a continuous descent where possible.
Alright thanks it’s cause sometimes I find myself in a 35-40 minute approach and sometimes only a 20-25 minute approach so I was wondering why.
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