[f-AA] Handpropped - pilotless takeoff

[Markl]

FWIW - I prefer for all pax to be on board before the prop turns so there is no risk to them.  I tell them that if something they don't like happens to me during the start to "turn the mag switch OFF and call 911"

Fly frequently, many times, often, over and over again, and LOOK around,

Regards,
Tony Markl
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Holmes 
  To: aeronca at westmont.edu 
  Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [f-AA] Handpropped - pilotless takeoff


  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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