CptCrawley

This is correct, it's a AFM item from Reims/Cessna, once I've done the after start flow the props would come out of feather, if its particually hot it would be the first thing I do as the pilot door would get noticely warm... if its that warm in the cockpit I don't want to know how hot the surface skin would be. I would normally set the props at the same time, but I know that can be hard to do in the sim

As a real-world pilot of the F406, we very very rarely actually see a temperature difference with cowl flaps, its mainly a precautionary item and is around a 5 knot decrease in cruise speed with them open.

Company fit on the aircraft scanned, IRL we don't use it as it's not Mode S. I believe it was for coastguard operations, remote operations, but I could be wrong