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Old 2nd Jul 2008, 21:11
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Ground idle (for turbines) is usually set to meet a very low thrust level for taxi, but it generally takes a long time to spool up.

Flight Idle is set to meet a spoolup time requirement (xx seconds from flight idle to TOGA); ergo F.I. is a higher rpm that G.I.

Recip engines generally don't have thus issue and so "one size fits all".
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