Originally Posted by funfly
In the Instructor's forum recently an instructor said that he would severely chastise anyone he saw pushing or pulling an aeroplane by the prop. "Never, never", he said.
Couldn't understand it myself as the prop is the bit that puills the aircraft along anyway innit?
Interesting - at my club this is the usual way to move our aircraft, largely due to the fact that most of our towbars have snapped!
Logically, the loads generated by pulling the aircraft forward with the prop can't be any higher than those generated when you start your take-off run, can they?
Cheers,
David