Originally Posted by FGD135
Hugh Jarse said "Absolutely INCORRECT!" and made some references to training exercises in the DHC8 simulator (with autofeather configured). Not sure what exactly you were saying about those exercises, wrt to autofeather and whether the prop feathered - but a feathered prop (or a prop getting NTS treatment) is not a windmilling prop.
I'll help you out there.
You said earlier that no twin will climb with a windmilling prop. The point a few of the Dash 8 drivers were trying to make is that any one who's been in the Dash 8 sim has probably seen it climbing with the prop windmilling.
Take a Dash 8, fail an engine, fail the autofeather system so that it doesn't feather, handle it ok and it climbs. It's not pretty and the performance is very marginal, but it can be done. That's not to say it should be done, and any one who's done it is under no illusions that it is in any way safe, but you are simply wrong when you make a blanket statement that no twin will climb with a windmilling prop.