Hi John,
thanks for sharing your real world challenges. It is always interesting to read, how operators deal with these issues. I also wonder, if designers / creators of terminal procedures somehow take into account performance of various planes that could potentially fly in / out of their area.
For example, few B77W pilots told me that it is very slippery plane. Considering that B744 has sometimes difficulty to meet some constrains, I can only imagine how challenging it is for them.
Yesterday, I tried a short hop from KALB to KBOS, and I did exactly the same as Hardy suggested (I wanted to ask this earlier, but felt a little silly as I am not a pilot). By deleting the 240 / 10000 SPD TRANS and manually selecting 250 kts on CDU, I was able to obey the speed limitation. VNAV crossed all waypoints on the upper limit, but that should not be an issue as I met limitations.
My other question is, when to slow down to 220 kts. Immediately after passing WINTA or a few miles prior to reaching SPYSD? I managed my speed via VNAV all the way up to IAF.
Thanks and best!