Howard Hughes
Mate, spent a fair bit of my life selling them and everything else from C152 up new.
The single biggest problem we had were the above experts and gurus who new much better than Mr Cessna on how to operate them best. Even worse were the "legend in their own lunchbox" CPs. I mean what would a new aircraft salesman know about his product. Many more times than once
I had to do the "I have control" during a demo to prevent the often surprisingly high time pirate from rolling the dice on our behalf, my children were still babies at the time.
If I had a $ for every time I heard something like, "now if Cessna really knew what they were doing they would...............followed by current aero club bar theory" I would be a rich man.
Most of the time was spent patiently reeducating them about stuff they already knew or at least should have.
Question following your,
with take off power set,
I know you know the answer but I wonder how many here do.
What checks can you perform to assure yourself that the available "take off power" is set??