What kind of plane do you fly? When doing my own flying (meaning not with my dad who flies anything from a piston twin to a Lear 31A), I didnt get past a 152, which only had throttle and mixture levers. Im not familiar with any that you have to manually set the prop pitch. The planes I know that have constant speed props adjust the pitch automatically with rpm setting. If I remember correctly, the Cessna 340 has throttle, mixture and rpm levers. If you have an engine die, I believe pulling the rpm lever down past the stop it feathers the prop to reduce the amount of rudder needed to keep it from rolling over. I could be wrong though. I have't gone on a flight with him in quite a while...