ORIGINAL: afterburner
Thanks for all the valueable info. Let me ask another question. Is it SOP to kill the engine on final? Is it more to get the plane to slow down enough or for sparing the prop or both? Thanks.
Marty
More to save the prop in my experience. I shut all of the racing planes down for landing.
I land my old scat-cat at idle often enough, even taxi it back. The spinning prop can help slow the plane by virtue of the disk area, but mainly the running engine (as with any aircraft) helps with control and airflow over the control surfaces. I can spot-land that plane as well as my uglystick.