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Your proceedure is a goodone to use (what is the max gear extended speed in your Baron?)
In my C-401B, to come down from altitude, I set the vertical speed at 500 fpm down, leave the cowl flaps shut, and sometimes even push the mp up and inch or two. I have to start my desent earlier than what your method is, but I come down like a bat out of H--ll. If you plan you desent correctly, when you arrive at the airport, desend a couple of hundred feet under pattern altitude, pull the nose up, decrease power to your normal settings for the pattern, push up the props, and when below 180, catch the first notch of flaps. This puts you at pattern altitude at max gear ext. speed. My CHT never get under 360 degrees so the Victor engines like it and it gets you to the Hamburger line ahead of you buddies.
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