Return-Path: Received: from imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.71] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b1) with ESMTP id 3145239 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:39:35 -0400 Received: from TOSHIBAjhr ([209.214.14.148]) by imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with SMTP id <20040404143932.BPP1780.imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net@TOSHIBAjhr> for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:39:32 -0400 From: "John Slade" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: idle speeds Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:39:32 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Last week we had some discussion on idle speeds, and I think the consensus was to keep it around 2000 or a little under. Just for information for other canard pusher people, I think 2000 is going to be a real problem for me. At the current 1850 setting with the big 3 66/84 prop I have on she's pushing hard against the brakes. I think I could taxi the length of the runway at idle and be doing 30/40 kts at the end. On a short (3400) runway the only way to stop might be kill the engine once on the ground, or even on short final. So I need to get the idle speed way down. John Slade (more power than I know what to do with)