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Old 02-09-2003 | 09:30 AM
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Lt. Dan
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Default Speed of sound vs. elevation

Here's a little Gee Whiz, when crewing DC-10's, at cruise, we usually had about a 150 knot split between IAS and TAS. As said before, the reduced IAS being attributed to the less-dense air entering the CADC's.

At about 30,000ft + we would be cruising at about 300KIAS but out TAS was about 450.