User manual

Piper PA-31T Cheyenne X
Aerosoft GmbH 2007
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(d) Engine Controls and Instruments
Power Control The lever which modulates engine power from reverse
Lever thrust through takeoff power.
Propeller The lever which requests a propeller governor to maintain
Control Lever propeller rpm at a selected value or feathers a propeller.
Condition The lever which controls fuel flow to an engine.
Lever
Beta Range The region where the propeller blade angle is between
the fine pitch stop and the maximum reverse pitch
setting.
ITT Gauge Inter-Turbine Temperature Gauge - indicates temperature
immediately upstream of the free turbine vanes.
Propeller RPM Indicates propeller speed in rpm.
Engine Indicates shaft output torque in lb-ft.
Torquemeter
(e) Airplane performance and Flight Planning
Terminology
Climb Gradient The demonstrated ratio of the change in height during
a portion of a climb, to the horizontal distance traversed
in the same time interval.
Demonstrated The demonstrated crosswind velocity is the velocity of the
Crosswind crosswind component for which adequate control of the
Velocity airplane during takeoff and landing was actually
demonstrated during certification tests.
Accelerate- The distance required to accelerate an airplane to a
STOP Distance specific speed and, assuming failure of an engine at
the instant of that speed is attained, to bring the
airplane to a stop.
MEA Minimum en route IFR altitude.