I must be stupid or missing something. Does everybody in this ng come into the
pattern at cruise airspeed? I was taught, and teach, that you come into the
pattern about 10 knots above your desired airspeed on final. If you do that,
your power is already back for level flight to where the prop is in the stops
anyway.

With the 182, it is 80 knots turning from the 45 to downwind, 75 on base, and 70
on final. I don't understand why pushing the prop to full flat has any noise
effect whatsoever.

Jim



Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com