Hey, 'lordsummerisle' what silly, uninformed comments you make!!
As far as pitchlock is concerned, it depends at what blade angle the pitchlock occurs. The SHP can be quite high at p'lock, forcing the shutdown of the engine at quite high airspeed, because as we all know, with a p'locked prop, when the TAS decreases, the SHP increases, and will exceed max limits during the descent if not canned.
Also, the L188 does not have pitchlock reset capability, or an negative torque switch protection system to protect in the case of a prop control malfunction during air restart, so airstarts are rare.
Operating this airplane without a flight engineer is madness!
So there, I've said it!
Cheers, and good luck Atlantic pilots, and anybody else operating a two-crew L-188.
FD
