Hello. It's a lovely plane to fly. However I am still learning to fly her properly. And one thing I would like to ask is how to increase cruise speed. It seems that there is always headroom to increase the speed but whatever I did it just refused to increase. For example, I was in 18000 ft cruise with 190 kts while the magenta speed stayed in 230 something.

And, sometimes on final, my throttle was in idle position but it could maintain proper approach speed. In other scenario, it needed to be in 35-40% to be in the Vapp perimeter (power management is TO). Thank you very much.

Edited April 6, 20242 yr by History

Lot's of topics on this at the moment.

 

In short, it is a slow airplane.  190 kias seems about right.

But I too have noticed the lack of decelleration on approach on a 3 degree glideslope and that, even at idle, the plane barely loses speed.

I think it's just a poor flight model.

Edited April 6, 20242 yr by JYW

8 minutes ago, JYW said:

even at idle, the plane barely loses speed.

I can confirm that this happens many times even with no tailwind occurrence. 

I think I may have forgotten to switch power man from cruise to TO, which I assume it gave me idle speed approach. When complying the checklist, TO mode gave me stall warning when idle. If this is correct, then TO mode simulates the more realistic speed - throttle profile. I am not sure though. 

Edited April 6, 20242 yr by History

11 minutes ago, JYW said:

I think it's just a poor flight model.

No it's not, you just have to configure her correctly.