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You want to go to full fine prop pitch ( full RPM ) when about to land.

Exactly.

G - Gas on fullest tank
U - undercarriage set; all green or locked and welded
M- Mixture rich
P - Propeller full rpm <100%> on final

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Originally Posted by Fearfactor (Post 124089)

I really don't think that's how they did it in real life. In most modern civilian types that have CSP, it's the very opposite. You want to go to full fine prop pitch ( full RPM ) when about to land. In some turbine engined planes that have a huge amount of reserve power, it's not said to be necessary though. Many King Air pilots just leave their prop RPM where it was during high altitude flight, all the way down to the runway. This is an exception to the rule though. On take off, even a King Air pilot will go for full fine though.

I fly a DeHavilland Dash 8 in RL and you are correct about about turboprops with huge amounts of power. The Dash 8 has a low RPM setting of 900 RPMs which we use in cruise, and a high (fine pitch) limit of 1200 RPMs we use for takeoff, initial climb, AND Go-Around. We fly approaches at an intermidiate setting of 1050 RPMS just to keep the noise levels down in the cabin (1200 is permited, but it is Very Loud). We leave it at 1050 all the way to touchdown, but if we go around, the non flying pilot pushes them up to the max of 1200. I know it seems like these are low numbers for the prop RPMs and I thought that too when I first started to fly the Dash, but it has almost 14 foot diameter propellers and any higher RPMs would get the tips close to supersonic with a great loss of efficiency.

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Originally Posted by Ctrl E (Post 122851)

thanks for the great info. what about magnetos, anyone?

and the superchargers? if i'm in trouble at low level would i get better performance for a sharp burst by ramping the supercharger up to 3?

You should normally run with both magnetos on , ie 1 + 2.
But the magnetos are modelled for damage. So if your engine starts running rough, or more usually just stops after beng hit, then try switching to 1 or 2 individually and restart the engine. If it is a damaged magneto then your engine will restart and you can continue what you were doing.

It has happened to me in the past a few times, but usually if your engine gets hit it will be more serious damage to the engine itself.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers.