From: Fredmoreno@aol.com
Message-ID: <f826965b.2503607b@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 01:58:19 EDT
Subject: Instrumentation Errors
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Scott:

    If you think the errors I note which creep into the manifold pressure 
gage are bad, be aware that the standard run of Cessna/Beech/Piper 
tachometers are notoriously bad, frequently being off 100 RPM or more.  I 
once knew how to check the gyro using the hour meter based on an article I 
read.  The hour meter reads accurately (actual clock time) at a given RPM, 
and it is a weird intermediate value like 2357 RPM or some such.  If one 
starts a stopwatch when the hourmeter on the tach turns over to a new digit, 
and you track it for a half hour or so, one can measure and correct the 
error.  When my TR-182 was nearly new, I did such a check and found the tach 
reading 83 RPM low, and I placarded it as such.  I no nonger complained when 
it appeared to be turning about 100 RPM low on takeoff.  It was an 
instrumentation error.  

So, in answer to your question: how do we set POWER if the manifold pressure 
and tachometer instruments are so much in error?  The answer is: VERY 
APPROXIMATELY.  


Sorry, but it's true. 

Fred
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