Hi guys. I just got checked out in my club's Cutlass for the purpose of
getting started on my commercial rating. In that vein, I haven't done
any instrument work in the AC yet -- working on the commercial rating
is an interesting opportunity toget out of the mental world of
instrument flying and revisit those not-so-polished basic stick skills!

But this is an instrument question...

I'm going to go up today to do some approaches for instrument currency
and figured I'd do it in the Cutlass to get a feel for that plane.

Does anyone have a crib sheet for the various "gaits" of the 172RG. By
gaits I mean the various MP/RPM/configuration settings (and their
associated airspeeds) that you use in different regimes of flight;
cruise, cruise climb/descent, holding, approach outside the OM, inside
the OM, etc.

I have a rought sense for what these numbers are, but I have to admit
that I don't quite fly by the numbers the same way VFR as I prefer to
IFR.

Soon I'll ask my instructor for some instrument practice in this AC,
but it'll be nice if I have some framework of power settings before I
do so.

thanks,

-- dave j
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