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Old 01-07-2015, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by RPS69 View Post
What I mean, is that there is a point that the plane speed on a dive is beyond the engine+propeller efficiency. You are not squeezing more speed, you are reducing it. To achieve more speed, you need to feather the prop.
That definitely makes sense and it's what I do when I'm in planes without auto prop-pitch, I assumed the automatic mechanisms in the German planes would do this more efficiently for me.

In a previous post you were wondering why I keep the engine at maximum power and you seemed to imply that reducing power would somehow generate more speed, I'm guessing you meant prop-pitch, not power?
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