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Originally Posted by Fearfactor
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.
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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.