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Old 31st May 2007, 03:23
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Old Smokey
 
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Good grief Jaguar Pilot, the goal posts keep moving! I thought that we were discussing jet engines.

My personal quick summary -

(1) Vmcg/Vmca for a normally aspirated piston engine aircraft will decrease with increasing Pressure Height,

(2) Vmcg/Vmca for a supercharged piston engine aircraft will increase with increasing Pressure Height up to full throttle height, and then decrease,

(3) Vmcg/Vmca for a Fully Rated (EGT Limited) Jet engine aircraft will decrease with increasing Pressure Height, and

(4) Vmcg/Vmca for a Flat Rated Jet engine aircraft will increase with increasing Pressure Height up to the height where temperature (EGT) becomes the prevailing limit, and then decrease.

Turbo-Props deliberately left out of the summary as you can play tricks with them (like injecting Water Methanol) to restore power loss with increasing Altitude and/or temperature.

It would have helped a lot if the original poster had been specific! What's he/she studying, PPL, CPL, ATPL, Performance Engineering?

Regards,

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