John Galban wrote:
: "Wayne" wrote in message ...
: Just got the original POH, there was no CS prop on the 175 or 175
: Skylark. On my plane the prop knob is in the cig lighter hole.

: Really? Sorry about that. I've flown about 4 examples of the 175
: over the years and half were O-360 conversions. I thought they all
: had a CS prop. Oh boy. There go the brain cells :-(

A guy on my field has a constant-speed prop on his GO-300 powered cessna.
It's a Cessna 172 "Powermatic", which is what they called the 175/Skylark
after it got it's bad reputation. The CS prop is from the factory, the prop
governor is mounted on the back side of the reduction gear housing on top
of the engine.

Any you guessed it, people wouldn't rev the engine high enough, AND they'd
use the prop to decelerate (backdriving the engine), which is a no-no with
a geared engine. So, these engines got a bad reputation.
--
Aaron Coolidge (N9376J)