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Old 30th March 2012 | 02:55
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shumway76
 
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Idle descent on piston & turbine engines
It is not advisable to carry out prolonged idle descends on piston engine aircraft due to "shock cooling" effect.
But for turbine engines this is not so.
Why is that?
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