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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Michael,
The new routes are planned on a 3 degree (or 3.5 degree) descent profile. The airlines want to hit TOD, pull the throttles to idle and head down, never adjusting anything until they get to the pattern. Evidently they have figured out that this saves them millions of gallons of fuel, so this is the new plan.
We have flown a couple of the proposed routes that bring us into PHX using the ABQ center and so far they look promising.
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