PhantomCougar
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I have been browsing through the 2007 Instrument Flying Handbook and on page 5-14 they talk about climb entries:
"To enter a constant airspeed climb from cruising airspeed, raise the miniature aircraft to the approximate nose-high indication for the predetermined climb speed.........Power may be advanced to the climb power setting simultaneously with the pitch change."
Then two paragraphs later, they talk about the same maneuver:
"To enter a constant airspeed climb, first complete the airspeed reduction from cruise airspeed to climb speed in straight-and-level flight"
So... one way says to raise the nose first and then let the airspeed drop from an increase in pitch... the other way says to reduce power first and then let the airspeed drop. What am I missing here, why offer two different approaches for entering a constant airspeed climb from level cruise airspeed without mentioning why there are two different approaches? Maybe they are both right but it would be nice if they said both methods are acceptable. Maybe they are two different manuevers and I haven't been able to catch on to the difference. I've read this section over and over and am not picking it up.
"To enter a constant airspeed climb from cruising airspeed, raise the miniature aircraft to the approximate nose-high indication for the predetermined climb speed.........Power may be advanced to the climb power setting simultaneously with the pitch change."
Then two paragraphs later, they talk about the same maneuver:
"To enter a constant airspeed climb, first complete the airspeed reduction from cruise airspeed to climb speed in straight-and-level flight"
So... one way says to raise the nose first and then let the airspeed drop from an increase in pitch... the other way says to reduce power first and then let the airspeed drop. What am I missing here, why offer two different approaches for entering a constant airspeed climb from level cruise airspeed without mentioning why there are two different approaches? Maybe they are both right but it would be nice if they said both methods are acceptable. Maybe they are two different manuevers and I haven't been able to catch on to the difference. I've read this section over and over and am not picking it up.