Austrian772

I always make sure to go to 850 mode. Mostly, I am cruising at FL 280 - 310 and Max Power doesn`t cut it for me...

Okay, Normal Cruise works fine for me now, but Max Cruise just doesn't cut it. I would have to pull the prop back too much, which causes me to lose speed compared to the Normal Cruise setting. I don't really understand why this is the case, but anyway Normal Cruise is more economic and who doesn't want to save fuel :wink:

I also manage to get to the Normal Cruise torque, but only if I pull the Prop back to 1800 - 1850 RPMs. Normally, my legs are about 600 - 900nm.

After another test flight, I still could not solve the problem. However, I lowered my Prop Rpms to around 1800 to get the torque setting displayed in the performance table for Normal Cruise. I still have not found out how to achieve the Max Cruise torque...

It was off for sure. I also tried lowering my Prop RPMs to reach the torque described in the manual,but that only made the speed drop...

Hello guys, after spending some time reading the manuals for this beautiful bird, I finally took off for my first flight. Everything went fine except for one thing: after reaching my cruise altitude of 31.000ft I took out the performance tables. I decided to go for the Max. cruise settings and the table says 91% of TRQ at FL310 at a temperature of -36C. However, I can not get the engine to that setting and my TRQ was around 75% - 80% although I had set the flap lever to "850". Any advice?