On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:43:54 -0500, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > Thanks for doing this. I have one minor nit (which is probably an > > easy thing for a flatlander to miss.) :-) I don't see any way to > > adjust the mixture (without resorting to the property browser.) > > Aside from that, it looks great. > > Not me -- the mixture is the most-used lever on my plane, now that I > pay for my own avgas and maintenance. In fact, the Warrior II POH > actually recommends using the mixture rather than the throttle to set > cruise power for best economy (leaving the throttle wide open), and > I've had a lot of success with that -- it has the added bonus of > reducing the risk of CO poisoning to virtually nil once the cylinders > are all running lean of peak. > > (For those who are not aware, the rich-of-peak/lean-of-peak debate is > the light-aircraft equivalent of the emacs/vi debate, i.e. the closest > thing possible to a perpetual-motion machine.) ..heh, and you the emacs'er balance that by running lean-of-peak? ;-) ..how far back can you drag it before it starts running rough? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
