Never heard of a Multi-Engine student? Or a student getting his Complex
endorsement?

It's even possible for a student working on his PPL to fly a plane with a
constant speed prop. At the flight school where I got my PPL, they had a
couple of Socata Tampicos and a Tobago. If the tampicos were tied up,
students could rent the tobago for training, and the instructor would work
the prop control. I did that several times in my training.

Sometimes students actually buy planes before they get their PPLs and fly
constant speed props during training because that's what they bought. It's
not unheard of...

Otherwise, you are correct. I cannot think of any fixed pitch trainer that
would offer feathering of the prop. Except perhaps unless that prop was
underneath the plane in a nose-down position after porpoising down the
runway a while.

(journeyman) wrote in
u.com:


Sorry, I went a little overboard. Big John was talking about
feathering an engine. AFAIK, only multi-engine aircraft have
feathering props.

Sydney was pointing that you don't shut down the single engine on a
single-engine trainer. Which is what this discussion started with.

You suggested the shutting off the mags was meant to be part of the
shutdown checklist "after the prop is feathered".

The kinds of single-engine trainers a solo student is likely to be
flying only has fixed pitch. You wouldn't feather it even on shutdown.


Morris (going into Emily Latella mode)