Alex Perry writes: > > > What about cowl flaps? > > All of my experience is with jets, what exactly are cowl flaps? > > For aircooled engines, the flaps either constrain the airflow into > the engine compartment, or constraint it coming out of the compartment. > The C172RG has them underneath behind the gear. > > Flaps are open at slow speed and high power settings (eg climb) and > are closed at high speed and low power (eg cruise).
Hmm, I suppose I really ought to take some consideration of this into the CHT model. Are these a manually operated thing? Cheers - Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
