Originally Posted by
Eddie Dean
Just now read the PT6 manual. Idle reset has only two positions. There appears to be no intermediate position. If you have it in low idle you can increase RPM with the throttle.
Are you talking about up at the fcu?
Of course you can increase rpm with the power lever (throttle).
You can also increase it with the condition lever- anywhere between the low and high idle positions. Push the lever forward a bit, stop, it stays there with a corresponding increase in idle speed.
Mick, the report doesn't say the engines were "operative". It just says that the cores were rotating at impact but they don't indicate at what possible speeds. Ram airflow will spin the core of a PT6. All that highlights is for example it hadn't seized up/disintegrated etc.
State of the fuel system cannot really be figured out directly from the information at hand. I'm sure they'll investigate what components they can, and if it was refuelled locally I'd imagine they'd already have copies of the delivery docket and samples from the truck.