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Old 9th Aug 2007, 21:32
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Dick Whittingham
 
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The last thing I want to do is challenge a 38,000 hour pilot who has flown a Bearcat and survived, but I do not agree that it is better to set less than max rpm in preparation for a landing - because you need may need max rpm for the unintended abort. Barit is right about the drag on finals - good thing - with fully fine. We both think John Deakin has it wrong about the torque at lower rpm. I think, from my limited experience that mixture rich and prop to full fine are two checks that should be done downwind at the latest.

IMHO the real way to avoid torque stall incidents is to govern your throttle hand. It is self evident that the aircraft will have aileron authority to keep wings level at all flying speeds or the pilots notes would limit power permitted at low speed. Torque stall comes from an imbalance on the rates of application of power and aileron and rudder. It is a handling problem.

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