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‘Planned true airspeed’ and ‘actual true airspeed’

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Aviation calculators compute ‘planned true airspeed’ and ‘actual true airspeed’ using pressure altitude, temperature and calibrated airspeed.

The results are different, probably because 2 different temperatures are used for the calculations.

Could somebody please explain the difference between the 2 calculations and the difference between the 2 temperatures used in the calculations?

Thanks

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  1. KDS on Sep 29, 2017

    You broke the code. The planned is using the temperature you anticipate and the actual is the temperature you encounter once at that altitude.

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  2. Charles22 on Sep 29, 2017

    Actually my electronic calculators uses 2 different methods to calculate the ‘planned’ and ‘actual’ airspeed and if you use the same temperature value for both methods with everything else also being equal, the results are different.

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