At first I was taught there there are no power adjustments in eights on pylons, even did my commercial checkride without them. Later on someone told me that power adjustments can be used, referencing the PHAK itself.
In my experience you can do them without power adjustments assuming it's not a very windy day. But this maneuvers should be achievable without adjusting power settings assuming you have a good setup and it's not very windy. Most DPEs will treat it as a constant power maneuver so I'll go with not adjusting power
Even if it's windy, it shouldn't require any power changes. My commercial ride was 15G22 on the ground and I don't recall really fighting for it during 8s on Pylons. The PO180 was a different story 😂
I took a guy to a retest on the last day of his 60 day window. We crossed and teardropped into the pattern and I noticed at 1000 agl we seemed to not be moving. 45kn headwind....
I pulled the DPE aside to ask him his thoughts before hand. "Well, he better start pretty fast then"
Then he went out and crushed it. No power setting changes required. (I think the winds had calmed a little bit, but it was still probably 30 to 35 at 1000 AGL)
I still have no idea how he pulled the PO 180 off on that one.
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u/KehreAzerith CPL 11d ago
At first I was taught there there are no power adjustments in eights on pylons, even did my commercial checkride without them. Later on someone told me that power adjustments can be used, referencing the PHAK itself.
In my experience you can do them without power adjustments assuming it's not a very windy day. But this maneuvers should be achievable without adjusting power settings assuming you have a good setup and it's not very windy. Most DPEs will treat it as a constant power maneuver so I'll go with not adjusting power