Years ago, when Noah was banging nails into lumps of wood and watching the weather forecast !!!
.... I was on a PPL course. We were trying to start a Cherokee 140 with a flat battery. My instructor was halfway round the front when the CFI came out of the clubhouse like a rocket. "Anyone touches that prop, they're out of here."
A long walk later and we'd fetched "Sid the Tiger Moth pilot" from the airfield cafe to swing the prop for us. It cost us a breakfast fry up for him but we got a safe hand start from someone who had been properly trained to do it.
The CFI set up a lecture for the afternoon....guess the subject ?
Move forward to the present day. Now older and much wiser I regularly supply ground marshalling at Popham airfield in the UK. I know how to swing a prop, I've seen it done many times, ..... but I've never been properly trained to do it and would never consider trying it without proper training.
.... I was on a PPL course. We were trying to start a Cherokee 140 with a flat battery. My instructor was halfway round the front when the CFI came out of the clubhouse like a rocket. "Anyone touches that prop, they're out of here."
A long walk later and we'd fetched "Sid the Tiger Moth pilot" from the airfield cafe to swing the prop for us. It cost us a breakfast fry up for him but we got a safe hand start from someone who had been properly trained to do it.
The CFI set up a lecture for the afternoon....guess the subject ?
Move forward to the present day. Now older and much wiser I regularly supply ground marshalling at Popham airfield in the UK. I know how to swing a prop, I've seen it done many times, ..... but I've never been properly trained to do it and would never consider trying it without proper training.
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