Mike S
Senior Curmudgeon
The new issue of AOPA has an good article by Mike Bush about how to maximize speed, range, and fuel use.
With the current cost of avgas, I am looking to try this out.
It all revolves around flying at the Carson number and leaning. For those not familiar with the Carson number, here is an older article explaining it.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2010/december/01/technique-cheap-speed
One of the ideas brought out is for those with a C/S prop, you pull the prob knob back at WOT until you get to the Carson speed.
This will most likely end up having the engine running at a RPM lower than most of us usually fly at, and I suspect potentially getting into some restricted RPM zones.
Anybody know if an IO320 with a Hartzell C/S prop has any specific RPM to avoid continuous running?
With the current cost of avgas, I am looking to try this out.
It all revolves around flying at the Carson number and leaning. For those not familiar with the Carson number, here is an older article explaining it.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2010/december/01/technique-cheap-speed
One of the ideas brought out is for those with a C/S prop, you pull the prob knob back at WOT until you get to the Carson speed.
This will most likely end up having the engine running at a RPM lower than most of us usually fly at, and I suspect potentially getting into some restricted RPM zones.
Anybody know if an IO320 with a Hartzell C/S prop has any specific RPM to avoid continuous running?
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