BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 Dec 2025, 11:38

Username Protected wrote:

Here is 17,500 feet VFR. 261 KTAS at 345 pph. That would give you over 1000 nm range with reserves. Pretty good performance down low. In the thick air, even pulling back the power lever a little gives much more range. Up to 20% more if you pull back to piston speeds. But why not fly it side open ;-)

Edit: Forgot this was an M700 thread. These are M600 data. The M700 can do even better than this.

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Not to derail the thread... isn't torque measured in LB/FT and NOT FT/LB?
Please be kind, I'm a piston guy, but was looking at the photo and wondering...

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 Dec 2025, 11:51

Yep, as others have pointed out, since it's ft * lb it doesn't really matter if you say ft-lb or lb-ft so long as you don't express it as a ratio. If you convert from freedom units to non-freedom units, it always seems to be expressed as Nm but never mN. And to me it all falls under the category of "you know what I mean", even though I have a Masters in pedantry.

However, I'm mostly here to point out that I never say acrobatic. It makes my friends think I'm a trapeze artist and it's hard enough explaining aerobatics as it is. I know some people use the terms interchangeably, though.

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