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The MEL PTS calls for a complete feather during the checkride...Area XI,
Task A. Bob Gardner "Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message ... The tip is to never shut down a good engine in flight... You can test the feathering on the ground - that is how the mechanic / prop shop does it... If the engine actually fails in flight there won't be a restart anyway so there is no defensible reason to put the plane at such risk, for no reason... Denny "Julian Scarfe" wrote in message ... As part of a "debugging" process yesterday, chasing a collection of minor issues, we tested the feathering of the left engine of our Twin Comanche, which had appeared significantly slower than the right one. It seemed to feather fine, with the prop stopping in about 10 seconds. Unfortunately, it didn't restart fine. I was very close to a "uh, we've painted ourselves into a corner, here" call to ATC and a real engine-out arrival, when at the 6th attempt in a 1000 fpm dive at 130 KIAS it finally came back to life. Fortunately we'd been careful to get ourselves plenty of altitude before the shutdown. Any tips on air restarts from the other PA30 drivers out there? I think we followed the POH to the letter, in particular, mixture RICH for the start. Is that really best? Why does it differ from the ground start procedure? Julian Scarfe |
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