[hharney]

The gates totally make sense to me and in fact when flying other piston twins and singes I can't believe they don't have gates. I too have lots of time in TurboProps so it was easy for me to use the gates when going into Beta with those

wslade, when you do your run up before takeoff based on the book, there is no feather? I pull the levers up in high pitch then bring them back to feather. Try leaving the props in high RPM and lift up the lever then pull all the way back (down)