So when ever I’m getting close to my arrival airport the ATC automatically tells me to reduce my altitude and I listen to the ATC but is that the right thing to do or should I just descent when I feel like doing it?

Good job wading through the math. One good rule of thumb for rules of thumb is to sanity check your answer. :wink: It takes some experience to know what a “good” answer is compared to a poor one, but pretty quickly you’ll get a sense that 96 miles is a sensible answer for TOD, whereas 96,000 mi is…

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secretfarmerGal December 23, 2022, 1:11am 6

ive always been taught the rule of 3 and 6

3x alt =distance
6x ground speed for decent speed

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