I know there's gotta be dozens of old pros here with more hours in 207s than this old plane even has on its airframe, so here's the story. I took off in -25F tonight (done it lots at -40) and everything was hunky-dory, quick 25 minute flight, I landed, shut down, opened the door and found the flaps still hanging down. Looked at the circuit breakers, all in, flap selector was up, so I turned the master on again. I heard the flap motor turning, but there was no flap movement. Flipped the flap selector up and down with no results, but the flap motor stopped when I selected 20 degrees. I got out and could move the flaps up and down by hand. Pulled the two inspection plates at the flap motor and the pulley, nothing obviously wrong, my guess is a shear pin or stripped gear? I decided it was probably going to fly home just fine with the flaps hanging in trail, so I unloaded all the crap I hauled and struck off home. I took off with the flap selector at 20 to keep the motor from running, and on the takeoff roll the flaps lifted to about 10 degrees as I expected they might. Once on course and level, they seemed to lower to 20 (it was dark, I could feel it). I raised the flap selector to 0 and lo and behold, the flaps came up. Then the circuit breaker popped, and I figured that was the best thing to happen all night. I made it home and left the flaps up on landing. They are still up and won't budge by hand, as normal. Now what? I have to bring this up with the mechanics in the morning, but I know for a fact they have as much experience with 207s as I do...the company has had this bird for less than a year after having a fleet of Cherokee 6's since the dawn of time.

You better delete this post before the feds see it.

Ya got a fried motor, frozen pulley somewhere and a bound up follow through cable, or a FUBAR flap switch. That flap system is about as Rube Goldberg as it gets. Just be glad your follow through cable didn't break on you while flaps full down on short final. Gives you split flaps and a very E ticket ride. Ask me, I know....

Gump

The feds can chime in too...