In the interests of flight safety, with our new aircraft barely a week off the McAlpine red carpet, I tested the cyclic lock release mechanism to see how much force was needed and how much rearward movement would occur once the lock was released.
Thankfully, and it was intentional, this was done post comp wash drying run/ground power check, with ac shut down!
Anyway, ready to be corrected, where does it tell you it is a shear pin! Why shouldn't I think it just slips out of the hole with a little force? That little sliver of aluminium surely isn't strong enough to hold it all together
Needless to say that if anyone else here has tried it, if you were to take off with the lock engaged and you were to shear the pin, you would have noticed that the rearward jerk once it had sheared would be more than enough to stoof the tail straight into the ground.
As tbc says....
see above 
Besides, you can't use it if you aint got one no more! So go out and see the effect for yourself! Shutdown of course
