Originally Posted by
Flex81
Thanks for all the replies guys! I flew BE-1900's before this and EMB-120's and we always matched torque as to not exceed ITT limitations. His reasoning was so that fuel flow would be the same and prevent an imbalance and therefore the need to crossfeed.
Me: "then we are flying sideways".
Him: "just trim it out".
Me: "we could pull the power out all the way on one engine and center the ball, but we would still be flying sideways".
Him: "we are not flying sideways that much".
Me: "Okay if that is the way you want it done then that is the way I'll do it"
He was obviously the captain.
Fly sideways to prevent from having to do a fuel transfer = Mondo silly. As if doing a transfer is some sort of traumatic event. Fuel flows are normally pretty well matched when torques are matched, anyway. I've never seen a significant difference.