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Ok, good idea, let me try ... here we go:
default aircraft, no wind, route Blackbushe-HAZEL-LA(NDB near Lyneham)-Bristol, at 6000ft;thus EGLK-HAZEL is entirely climb, and SkyDemon PLOG for that first leg is: Dist:20nm GS:113kts Time:11min which is consistent (Dist / Time = GS)
however, the climb speed of the default aircraft is 79kts IAS as per the set-up menu, which even at 6000ft will only be roughly 89kts TAS (using 2%/1000ft rule of thumb); the aircraft is entirely in the climb to HAZEL so must be 89kts or below, which would seem to conflict with the 113kts in the PLOG (?)
as an aside, looking at the HAZEL-LA leg, the GS is 118kts, so per the PLOG the aircraft would be almost as fast in the climb as it is at cruise level, which just intuitively feels odd
it may well be that I'm entering or reading something the wrong way, and it's not a huge discrepancy to be relevant for most flights (certainly at lower altitudes it isn't, I only stumbled across it when planning a FL090 cruise), I was just puzzled ... hope this helps
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