FWIW here's my TR182 experience. Of course the engine in
a TR182 is a very different beast from a T182T (carburetted
rather than injected, and turbo-normalized only, never boost above
31").

Full rich for takeoff, regardless of altitude, at 31" MP.
Lean to around 18 GPH (1350 or so TIT) with power reduction
to 25" at around 1000 AGL.

Lean to 1450 TIT for cruise.

Descend without further adjustment - TIT remains steady.
I've never experienced rough running in this situation.

Full rich as part of GUMPS check prior to takeoff, in
case of go-around.

John

"Barry Klein" wrote in message
om...
We took a newer 182 turbo to a 7000' elevation airport yesterday and
the engine quit at the end of the landing roll. I'm sure the mixture
was way too rich. It restarted without incident, glad we were on the
ground! We had the mixture set about 100 deg rich of peak TIT for
cruise at 9500. How should we have found the correct mixture setting
for power-off final approach, when the turbo is basically adding no
boost and we are at high density altitude? This is not addressed in
the POH. It does say full rich on takoff regardless of airport
elevation. Later that day, when taxiing for takoff, we set 1200 rpm
and leaned for peak rpm, mixture knob was out 1.5-2 inches to achieve
this.

When we returned home to 800' elevation, we checked the idle speed at
full rich, it was about 500 rpm, is this too low?


Thanks,
Barry