How to Properly "Trim" the Cessna 182 

Thank You very much -Ben

Very happy to hear that! Thanks

Yes, and Thank You!

Agree!

Cuz he talks so fast!😅

Now all we need in flight simulators is that control wheel/stick force. I lost my medical a long time ago, and so am stuck to simulators. For the life of me, I try to remember how I set trim in a real aircraft, and the sim software doesn't behave exactly like I remember real airplanes doing. It's a bit frustrating sometimes.

@@8a41jt Interesting. Can you explain what's different? I'm just getting into planes and I want to know what's different in the Sim.

Thanks! This was really just my first attempt to see if I could even capture anything useful...so hopefully I can make some more and they wind up being helpful for someone!

@@nerdsofflight7294 so good. are there other videos we can watch- You were very good at walking through it all

I am also a sim pilot for the A2A Cessna 182T. This has been a big help for me.

I wondered about that too. I flew a Cherokee Arrow for a few years and I never ran it over-square. I'd pull the throttle back to 24 inches once I was at pattern altitude and then pull the prop back to 2400 rpm..

This aircraft is modified with a more powerful, fuel injected engine so it doesn’t have carb heat! If yours has a carb, I still very much recommend using carb heat at partial throttle settings.

The Canards are part of an STC’d modification performed by Peterson Performance in Kansas. The mod is available for 182 P and Q models only. The canards dramatically change the low speed performance of these planes and allows them to fly at a much lower angle of attack for a given airspeed, which results in drastically improved short field performance! Take off in 390’ and land in 300’!

@@nerdsofflight7294 I think I found some information on it. Is it the Peterson 260SE?

@@nerdsofflight7294 is it the Katmai? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AXrOppsrwbs.html

Yes, mine is the 260SE The Karmai has the Wing-X Stol extensions (18” per wing) Some like that but I prefer not to have them because it only produces about 4 knots lower stall speed, but at the expense of a lower VNe speed and a little less clearance for fitting in a 40’ wide hangar! All of them from the 230SE, 260SE to the Katmai, Kenai and the King Katmai are really terrific planes!

@@nerdsofflight7294 How does it affect cruise speed?

Technically, either would reduce the power but it’s quite uncommon to do it with the prop. So making power adjustments with the throttle and using manifold pressure as the gauge

@@nerdsofflight7294 thanks for the explanation, ive never flown a constant speed prop befor. I owned a Cessna 172. I am looking to get into a baron

@@chrissampson5549 Low pitch (aka high RPM or full forward position) is needed when an airplane is slow (during a take-off run and climbs). As you remember, prop blades are nothing more than another pair of wings (airfoils) in a vertical plane. This is a fine pitch position :::|> As you gain speed in cruise flight, it will start to create more drag (because relative wind shifts forward) and less horizontal lift, so you need to adjust them to this higher pitch position :::\> It's comparable to bicycle shifter or manual transmission in a car and it helps to operate your engine more efficiently at different speeds.

Thanks Gary, always appreciate input. Please do keep in mind however, that there are more than one type of checklists out there... “Read-then-do” is the most common for general aviation pilots, and is likely what you are referring to, but when someone has thousands of hours in a specific type, they could very well have committed the checklist to memory and choose to use the “recall-then-do” method. Just because you didn’t see me specifically pick up a piece of laminated paper doesn’t mean that I didn’t do my “checklist”! Think about it like this...when you first bake a cake, you follow the written recipe line for line, but after a thousand cakes you’d likely have the list of ingredients memorized and the order of operations as well so while you are physically doing all the same things...you aren’t physically reading the cook book while doing them! Now when you change the kind of cake you want to bake...you’ll want to revert back to the new recipe to make sure you don’t miss any ingredients or steps...much the same way I would advocate a physical checklist in a new or unfamiliar airplane! I realize that you, or your flight instructor may not agree with that, and I’m perfectly ok with that too! There are many good ways to stay safe in the air, and as long as you’re doing THAT, then all is well!