ExtraKatana
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What MAP and RPM and airspeed....do you flatten the prop in the pattern?
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For straight-ins, I leave mine alone until short final.
For overhead pitch-outs (formation work, etc.), I don't go full RPM until on downwind when I'm a few seconds from the abeam point and want to slow down. That's when I go full RPM and throttle back to slow for flaps 20.
Like political opinions, everyone has a technique, and this technique is mine. Hope it helps.
For overhead pitch-outs (formation work, etc.), I don't go full RPM until on downwind when I'm a few seconds from the abeam point and want to slow down. That's when I go full RPM and throttle back to slow for flaps 20.
Like political opinions, everyone has a technique, and this technique is mine. Hope it helps.
ExtraKatana
Well Known Member
ah, so I am assuming 10" - 12" of MAP when one is throttling back before going to full RPM.
Sounds like the way I have been doing it for the past 20-years.
Typically I find ~15" MAP needed on downwind if flying a rectangular pattern at any RPM.
BillL
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That is the way Mike Seager teaches in transition training. Abeam of the touch down point in a standard pattern, so like others pretty late, just before descent. Then he had me hold 1800 rpm on descent until crossing the threshold.
