
VarkVet wrote:Well it's one of the checks I've always done before I jumped in and started the bloody thing.
You kneel on the ladder, set your switches, take the throttle from off to mil, slam to idle, then trigger tilt back to off.
Get off ladder and do rest of walk around?
If you really did it as described, you probably used the wrong technic. Checklist require you to check the entire range of motion (cutoff to max AB) and not only cutoff to MIL (even tough this is not relevant in this case with this mishap). More importantly, you need to check the functionality of the trigger mechanism, by trying to rotate the throttle outboard and moving it to cutoff without touching the trigger. This is the only way to check that the trigger mechanism is actually working as it should.