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by ib84 2100 days ago
I'm no expert, so this could be wrong but I have a gut feeling that during descent it could probably idle-glide by using the high-lift device sooner. If anybody was serious about flying with less emissions that could probably save lots of energy already today - it would just take longer to reach the target. It would be interesting to see numbers how the gravitational potential energy compares to the drag forces.