Question about Flex Temp
Was watching a Cap Joe vid about this and I get the general principle about "fiddling" the parameters to "trick" the FADEC (yes?) into setting a particular thrust but setting a high temp to get a lower thrust seems counter-intuitive to me because I thought jet engines produced higher thrust in colder temps (air more dense). Therefore I would have thought the logic would be the computer says to itself "It's cold outside today so we'll produce bags of thrust so we can reduce it a bit."
Any pro's looking in who could explain in simple terms?
(I believe this is Airbus but Boeings the same in principle with different terminology.)
Thx
M63