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Old 01-18-2012, 03:57 PM
kestrel79 kestrel79 is offline
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Wow some great info here. I got airborne for the first time in the Blenheim last night on the Cross Country quick mission.

Some noob notes:

Hard to turn while on ground. I had full rudder and trim to keep it straight down the runway.

I cooked one engine after lowering the cowl flaps to 50% for about 5 seconds...I had to fly with them full open all the time so keep the engines cool. Surely I was doing something wrong...I think it was me flying with a 80% fine prop pitch. Seems most of you guys fly coarse pitch, that is correct? I'll try that next time.

And also I probably didn't allow that much warmup time.
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