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Old 10th Jan 2016, 15:43
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Williams Engine Cycles

According to the manual, you can have full cycles and half cycles.

A full cycle contains a start, takeoff power, and shutdown, regardless of duration of the rest (idle, cruise, whatever).

A half cycle is a touch and go, a stop and go, or a ground maintenance run to max continuous (but not takeoff power).

Very useful for CJ operators, a start to ground idle power, run the air conditioning, load the FMS database, etc, then shut down is not a cycle at all; it only counts if you go to high power.

A training sortie that included 6 touch and goes, and one full stop landing, was 4 cycles.
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