"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:iE2Re.7744$wE1.2342@trndny01...
From the site you quoted:

Title 15, Section 15.16.110 of the King County
code states, "Except aircraft in control of authorized maintenance
shops, no aircraft engine should be started or run unless a pilot or
mechanic is attending the controls."

It doesn't say anything about 'the beast being tied down'.

" jls" wrote in message
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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.

If I were cited under the King County ordinance for violation and I had the
aircraft tied down, I would argue, probably in futility, that the spirit if
not the letter of the law had been complied with, since the obvious public
policy of the ordinance was to deter aircraft from running off berserk
without a pilot and tearing up things and killing people.

To my knowledge the FAA never violates anyone on the rule requiring a
competent person at the controls when an aircraft engine is started, unless
the aircraft gets away and does some of those weird things they are wont to
do --- as in slice up other airplanes or hangars.