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Old 21st Oct 2005, 21:50
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Chrisal,

It's as barit says, as the air density reduces the fuel must reduce to maintain the correct ratio and, as the thrust is in proportion to mass flow through the engine that reduces too. Modern engines handle the requirement to reduce fuel flow automatically but in early jet engines the pilot has to monitor RPM and reduce the throttle setting to maintain it.

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