I have, and it definitely works. The difficulty is that you must not then try to climb again, and I have always had a hard time not doing that. I used to do it in my KR, and I have done in a C-150.
See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for Flying has begun. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC -------Original Message------- From: Brian Kraut List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: 04/06/07 20:29:29 To: b...@flyboybob.com; KRnet Subject: RE: KR> Sterba prop data vs Sensenich Known as "Flying on the step". Some people swear it is true and some say it is a myth. I have not had a chance to try it yet. Climb out to 200 feet above your test altitude and level off. Let the KR accelerate up to top speed. Then enter a very shallow dive of 50'/min descent rate. After four minutes you will be back down to your test altitude and the engine will be spinning a few hundred RPM faster. In some planes this trick is enough to get the plane accelerated to a speed that otherwise it could not achieve.
