[f-AA] Handpropped - pilotless takeoff

[Tom Holmes]

I put them on board after the airplane is running and settled down.
  Tom

Todd Pattist <tpattist at snet.net> wrote:
  Do I understand you to say that you recommend using the throttle lock even with a pilot on board who can reach the throttle, brakes and mag switch?  If you're referring to non-pilots and you have to solo start, do you start with them aboard and the pilot seat empty, or do you board them after you get it started?

Markl wrote:           if they forgot to close the throttle, they'd probably have forgotten to close it and put on the lock :-) 
   
      Don't agree with this reasoning.  Why not?  If you always use a throttle lock (I do, even with folks in the cockpit) and you are human you will forget it sometimes.  If this happens once a year and you also only have the throttle wide open for clearing out, once a year -- the odds of these two "once a year" events occurring on the same day are infinitesimal.
      It gives you two things to do after clearing out with throttle open.  One - close throttle  Two  put throttle lock on.   You can forget either one and still have the throttle at idle.
    The reason I am a crusader for safer propping is that the FAA will make hand propping illegal sooner or later and I want later (after I am dead).  The more these blunders get in the news the sooner "safety /security requirements" will require electric starting.
   
  Fly frequently, many times, often, over and over again, and LOOK around,   and prop safely.
   
  Regards,
Tony Markl


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