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Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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I think the old manual Mooneys were pretty easy to get wrong as
well.
there was one at Montgomeryville that kneeled down at the pumps
when
someone who was looking for the parking brake undid the handle.
Never
flew one, but there's some sort of collar that can be slid away and
alows the selector handle or lock handle to move and unlock?


Bertie
Kind of spoils the whole mood for the flight :-)))


Yeah, I think the prop was vertical as well, just to add injury to
insult.


Bertie

Ouch!! At least when this happens you get a new found bounce in your
step with all that weight out of your wallet that was there before it
happened.
:-)

Actually, I know it was vertical. The line boy who was pushing it from
the pumps nearly had his toe taken off by the prop. It was the only
Mooney based at Montgomeryville at the time. Only one I know of anyway.
I remeber it was a wooden wing airplane. Always liked the look of it. I
still have a pic of myself next to it, somewhere.

When the pins are in in an airliner, maintenance will happily move the
handle inside the flight deck. I was broken down away from base with a
ruptured main actuator that needed replacement and rigging. They needed
us out at the airplane because none of them were cleared for engine runs
and they needed the power form the engine driven pumps to do the job (
actually they needed a special precision pump that could move the gear
actuator precisely, but they didn;t have one)
Not a nice feeling seeing that handle move on the ground. They didn't
fix it and we all retired to the rathskeller.



Bertie