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How not to hand start a plane

The video says it all!



United Kingdom

Why would one hand prop a Cirrus?

If the battery was flat, that’s not a good procedure because you will be taking off with a flat battery. If the starter motor was broken, the aircraft was probably not airworthy.

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Video not available! But the result is visible.

Berlin, Germany

The only reason I see to hand start a 310hp engine is for an early morning gym exercise

Paris/Essex, France/UK, United Kingdom

The original youtube video cannot be embedded. This one works


Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

So he attempts hand propping alone without having put chocks on the aircraft? And standing in front of the propeller? Some people shouldn’t have a pilot’s license.

ESKC (Uppsala/Sundbro), Sweden

Watch the video carefully. He was not alone. There is a passenger in the right seat that jumps out of the airplane when it starts rolling.

ESME, ESMS

It took me a few tries to see the person. E is visible behind the plane at times 12s-15s of the video.

ELLX

Sorry – I could not resist – nothing new then?



United Kingdom

However you slice it a Seminole is still a slow plane!

YPJT, United Arab Emirates
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