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Old 20th Oct 2010, 19:21
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Originally Posted by IO540
How can one have an uncontrollable overspeed condition if the throttle and mixture are both working and the engine power generation can be totally shut off?
My understanding is one must slow the aircraft down to the point where the RPM on the fine stops is within the target range in governor failure modes such as described. There is no indication in the narrative this was attempted.
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