Originally posted by PJFaller
Just thought I would add my two cents worth about tweeking and turning up tubine engines. Anytime you turn the engine faster to put out more thrust you are shortening the engine life, and you are running the engine hotter. For instance I fly for the airlines for a living and here are some facts that we live by. In the 35 odd years my company has been running jet engines on all aircraft from 737 to 747 we have NEVER thats right NEVER lost an enigne on takeoff at a reduced thrust setting. Reduced thrust operations of a jet engine extend the engine life tremendously. The hot section runs cooler and the shaft and blades dont get as hot as well. My thoughts in my super bandit is to run a p-160 turned way down to 26lbs. The engine will never run hard and should last me a heck of a lot longer. I dont know much about turning enegines up as far as they can go with microturbines, but they are the same thing as the ones putting out 60,00lbs of thrust, and we are told never to run them that way....My two cents take it for what its worth.
Pete
 
Oh, at last a voice of sanity!