bafanguy
Not laughing at you but with you bafanguy. Maybe when I was younger I might have added more details, well, I don't know if I would even have done it then. But, really the only thing that stops them from going into reverse in the air are the pilots not doing it. I remember the World War II ace and Viet Nam fighter pilot Robin Olds said that one of the main reasons he shot down so many aircraft was that he never looked at the instruments. I have about 18000 hours on the DC-9 variants but have always found it annoying to talk about valves and CBs and such. One of the great things about this biz is that it is made up of so many different types of folks that all seem to get the job done amazingly well.