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Following up on my previous post, if you're at 11,500 feet and 2450
RPM, it seems like there is good reason to want to run at or near best
power mixture settings (around 50 degrees rich of peak EGT) since
the %power at that altitude and RPM around 60% of max HP. It
seems like you shouldn't have to worry about mixture settings causing
temperature probelms at such low power conditions, and in fact, the
lean-of-peak guys say as much (see the links below). So it seems
like the question boils down to whether the oil temp and CHTs you cite
are too high, and if so, what should be done so that you can run at
best power mixture conditions under the the relatively low power
conditions you cited.
I'd sure love to be educated about this, and my guess is that the
Advanced Pilot Seminar guys who Skip cited know as much about this as
anyone. There have been threads about this over the years on the
LML. John Deakin, one of the guys involved in the Advanced Pilot
Seminar (or at least who used to be) wrote four short articles on
leaning in the Pelican's Perch series at avweb.com that discuss the
effects of leaning on CHTs. See
http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182179-1.html
http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182176-1.html
http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182583-1.html
http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/183094-1.html
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