"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
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So when you lower the flap handle in a manual Piper system, does it drag
the
flaps up or does it merely take the latch away and allow the spring to do
its job, as in the electrical equivalent?

Hardly a definitive answer but I seem to remember pre-flighting
something (may have been a PA28) where the flaps stuck down
when I put the lever back down. A quick nudge freed them.

Paul