Originally Posted by
desmotronic
why would company policy be not to arm autofeather?
The operator, Advance Aviation, had two 200s, one (VH-AAV) was fitted with auto-feather, the other was not. For the benefit of standardised procedures it was company policy not to arm the AFX on AAV.
It was generally accepted that the pilot managed to manually feather the left prop on AAV but it was overweight and underpowered (company policy to use ITT of 700°C for take-off rather than flight manual 750°C) and couldn't maintain level flight even in ground effect.