Turbo 182: correct mixture for final approach at high altitude?

"Jeff" wrote in message
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you would think that since its a turbo airplane, cessna would expect it to
be
used at high altitude airports so they would have made it so it would not
cut
out on landing.

And yet, this is a common enough issue, with many different makes and models
of turbocharged aircraft.

Why single Cessna out? There's all sorts of inconveniences related to the
technologies used in "modern" aircraft. One of them happens to be the
likelihood of engine stoppage if the mixture is set to full-rich at high
density altitudes. This isn't unique to Cessna, and it seems to me it's
along the lines of "Doc, it hurts when I do this..." joke. Since it "hurts"
when one does that, one just doesn't do that.

Simple enough, IMHO. The main problem is that, for some reason, pilots who
are introduced to turbocharged aircraft are often not told about the need to
avoid full-rich mixture settings at high density altitudes. This was true
of me (I found out myself the hard way...only took two high altitude
landings for me to figure it out though ), and it's apparently true of
other pilots as well.

Pete