Originally Posted by
Jabawocky
foobar,
In terms of error tolerance on descent? LOP, far more tolerant in every case.
The example that I had in mind was advancing the throttles to full, with the mixture still set at a sensible LOP setting (whatever that might be), as opposed to an appropriate ROP setting. For example in a chieftain won't both examples result in ROP with the former more likely to be at risk of some detonation?
Perhaps if you do it once it won't hurt, perhaps it doesn't matter the detonation margin is big enough, or perhaps they are both equally bad.
It's as much an illustration that other factors can influence the outcome, or its not always as straight forward as it might seem.