Originally Posted by
hans brinker
Thanks for the correction, the props I flew, prop handle all the way back feathered the prop. Are these buttons push to feather and pull to unfeather? Is there a guard or something like that, or could you accidentally push 2 at the same time if you had fat fingers?
Yes Hans, on the DC 6 you would push to feather and pull to unfeather. If I remember correctly that was also the case on the DC-3 and CV 340. Those switches would be protected either by say a tube guard around them and have openings at the sides to pull back out the button to unfeather or they would have say half tube to allow a pull out from the not protected section.
Pushing two at the same time seems to me a very hard thing to happen but who knows how these switches on the crashed B-17 were protected.
I am new here and my posts first have to be checked out but on my previous one which has not come out tried to describe the procedure we used to confirm and push.