You can feather the prop on a PT6 free-turbine engine and
this is a normal training and testing procedure. You do
this at idle or very low power settings. On a piston
engine, feathering the prop stops rotation, so the engine
quits.

On a PC game, the electrons stop flowing?


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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| Mxsmanic wrote:
| I'm not clear on exactly what 0% does on the prop
control. I notice
| that it can actually go into negative percentages, but I
have no idea
| what that actually does to the props. Does anyone know?
Does 0%
| actually mean that the prop is feathered? I can see the
prop pitch
| change out the window, so it seems like it does (the
blades are almost
| parallel to the wind with props set to zero).
|
| Also, can the props be feathered on a running engine, or
is that not a
| good thing?
|
| I can't imagine how/why you would feather the prop with
the engine
| still running. Certainly not something I have or would
try. On most all
| planes pulling the prop level all the way back feathers
them. On some
| older planes there was a feather button but nothing I've
flown (DC-3,
| etc)
|
| -Robert
|