chris wrote:
I dunno much about flying jets, but I remember someone once told me on
a jet it's the other way around to a light a/c.. In a Cessna you use
power to control rate of descent and attitude to control speed but on a
jet it's power = speed and attitude = rate of descent.

I remember hearing the same thing. Now having done my IFR license, you
always stay on the forward part of the curve where power = airspeed and
attitude = descent rate (power + pitch = performance). sO It's the same
for light a/c as well. it just depends on what part of the power curve
you are on and IFR a/c (in general) want to stay on the forward part of
the curve.

Gerald