OK, two Chocky frogs!
Yeah it was for noise abatement. But Section 2 ???
To minimise noise about 2600 is all you need to reduce to, and once above 1500' the effective noise is reduced by distance so you might as well run it back to 2700.
This is kinder on the engine by means of lower peak cylinder pressure, hence CHT, and more climb power available thus quicker to TOC.
FCP, I assume you are not climbing very high.
Good work guys
PIP …… maybe they have fixed that in recent versions. The one I have is 10+ years old. The TC version does not have it either.
This is yet another reason why critical thinking of POH's is necessary. Many are far from sensible, and some are very poor.