B190 Autofeather
Hallo Everybody,
Just had an interesting autofeather discussion today with my Captain. We had some problems ground testing the autofeather system. We called the Engineers to have a look and they subsequently did the usual, i.e. cleaned the plugs, checked the pressure switches and circuit boards. After all that we ground tested the aircraft again and it was still slow to feather, but at least it worked.
On the empty flight to our Home Base we were wondering if there is a way to check the system in-flight. The only solution we could think of was to physically cut the engine using the Fuel Cut-Off, which we weren't comfortable with so we didn't go that route.
Did we fail to think of another method?
Regards,
Prop Job