As my KR has yet to get an engine I can't speak for KR's. The Mooney's I have flown, Beechcraft and the Lancair 360 with laminar flow wings, the "go a hundred ft higher, point her down" was the quickest way to get them on step as you stated, otherwise it just seemed to take forever to get going. Slower cruising, lower power planes (non laminar flow) didn't really seem to mind not doing the dive down, but I still do it just to get "we're at speed, quicker to trim." Laminar flow wings coming back to the airfield, put that nose down, they really haul the mail. The faster they went, the less they wanted to come down. Many times I would fly an overhead 360 pattern and bury the speeds in the the crosswind/downwind turns, throw the gear out. Wasn't so busy getting into a base leg entry to fast, or dealing with pulling manifold pressure back & shock cooling.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 1:29 PM Oscar Zuniga via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > As long as there is a discussion about climbing to cruise, here's one for > you high-altitude cruisers. It's a discussion that I've seen several times > over the years but I figure people like Langford, Jeff Scott, Mike > Stirewalt, and others with a lot of hours and miles in cruise might comment > on. The basic premise is that when climbing to cruise, some pilots have > reported that they get into level cruise quicker and easier if they > slightly overshoot cruise altitude, drop the nose so speed builds up and > altitude drops back to target altitude, and then reduce power, adjust trim, > and let it settle in. Like getting a powerboat up on the step using full > power, then walking the throttles back to a nice smooth cruise once it's on > plane. > > This is opposed to the technique of gradually reducing climb trim (or back > pressure on the stick) as the target altitude is approached, never actually > overshooting target altitude but rather, creeping up on it and then letting > speed build up while holding altitude. > > Has anyone experimented with these climb-to-cruise transitions? My > comments on the subject aren't worth much, since most of my time in the > last 20 years has been in airplanes that climb at 55 and cruise at 65-70 ;o) > > Oscar Zuniga > Medford, OR > Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
