Originally Posted by
A0283
question that i now have (for ATR pilots) … how different would it feel… (while looking out of the window) … but now, going in a rush, doing a ‘single’ fast and rough lift up/pull movement of each of the levers … between CL and flap operation?
in other words does a fast movement substantially reduce the difference in feel, and thereby reduce possible triggers ?
Would say that the main difference in terms of 'feel', between the Condition Levers and the Flap Lever, is that the Flap Lever is far more 'lighter' to operate than the CLs. There is more 'friction' associated with the movement of the CLs. It is therefore necessary to apply a bit more force to move the CLs than what is necessary to move the Flap Lever. The Flap Lever is very light to move.
if so, in that case, would there be a difference being in the left seat or the right seat…?
What I thought initially when the word came out that the Propellers had feathered, was that the Pilot Flying was the pilot on the Right Seat, and maybe there had been a mistake between the Condition Levers, and the Power Levers. Being maybe a bit high, in terms of profile, or in terms of speed, and in an attempt of reducing the power of the engines to correct, instead reaching for the CLs, which are closer to the Right Seat, than the Power Levers, and inadvertently feathering the propellers.
We know now that this was not the case.