"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:AL1Re.13526$cY.6810@trndny06...
Hey, If you need to bail out of your plane cuz it's on fire, and you
happen
to be wearing a chute, make sure you stop the prop first, OK?

"Bill Chernoff" wrote in message
news:Rg1Re.334716$5V4.320622@pd7tw3no...
next they'll be citing those folks with a cold-weather remote control
starter in their car...


Apples and cumquats. They've tried to get through to you libertarians that
you have to have a competent person at the controls or at least have the
beast tied down. What's so difficult about that, or firing it up from
behind the prop with the door swung 180 degrees, so you're at the throttle
and ignition? Dingnab loonytarians think they have a right to unleash a
mad bull on the neighborhood, and I got a lot of loonytarian blood myself.

There's a true story about several one-armed flight instructors in a small
area of Pennsylvania, and another true story about the lady Cub-owner who
always expected her instructor to prop the Cub for her, but failed her
checkride because she expected the FAA examiner to prop it for her too ---
because she had never tried it.

Then there was the Taylorcraft owner, another lady kind and naive, who let a
student climb into her plane as she was pulling the prop through. She had
the engine set at idle but it inexplicably roared to life. She tried to
arrest it by grabbing the strut, which merely helped it arc into several
other unlucky aircraft. This one rings true with me because I don't know
how many times I have gotten into a Taylorcraft and all of a sudden gotten
an immediate shot of adrenaline when it made a quick roaring bee-line for a
hangar or a Baron on the ramp. You're all excited about getting seated,
settling in and flying, got your mind on those belts, intercom, and
headsets --- it never occurs to you that you just inadvertently firewalled
the throttle with your knee.

In northern Australia a pilot decided to take some children for a ride in
the Salvation Army's 182. The battery was down so he got out and
hand-propped it. It got away and was getting airborne but was stopped by
trees and destroyed. Thankfully the children were not badly injured.