Jet guy (Airline) and getting back into recips,... You helped make this a great refresher and cleared some things up for me. Mike Busch says "Manifold Sucks"! It can be hard to grasp the concept, but you made it easy!!!
Thank you, sir, for your explanation! I have the 10hrs required for commercial certificate; I did not really understand the idea behind manifold pressure until now. thanks for taking your time to explain it this well.
Excellent explanation! The diagram was great as well. I'm a low time pilot looking to earn my complex endorsement very soon and was having trouble understanding how this worked. For some reason, the way you described it, clicked in my head. Now make a video on how it correlates to the prop settings of a constant speed prop and how why it's not recommended to have higher manifold pressure than prop speed. Still need my brain to click on that.
Hi, this is because if you have a high manifold pressure but a very low prop speed, there is a lot of force being exerted on the spring which governs the pitch of the propeller, and it can break!
