Originally Posted by jab
Flingwing207, tell us more about the stuck collective episode, I would like to know more. Have never heard of it happening before.
More accurately a stuck throttle-actuation bellcrank - the collective would move up and down, but throttle butterfly wouldn't close, so reducing power would run the RPM out of the green. Got the aircraft to the ground with the RPM a bit high and the collective up a tad, cooled the engine as much as at would cool, then pulled mixture (got some strange looks from my partners in crime all the while).
It turned out that at a prior inspection, a plastic cover between the seats had been installed improperly, eventually jamming the throttle bellcrank where it leaves the collective/corrolator.
So not
exactly a stuck collective, but as near as I ever hope to see!
