Originally Posted by
BEagle
On taxying out at Chiv, I noticed that the GTS had started itself. Tried shutting it down again (can't remember how one did that), but it started itself again - so I binned the trip. It turned out to be a short in the throttle switch, which would have meant that as soon as the weight had come off the wheels on take-off, I'd have had lots of unwelcome captions, nicht wahr?
Simply, if it don't work on the ground it ain't going to work any better once airborne.
Back to the OP, ask him for a war story, 'any dicey moments in the Hawk . . . '
Walt's delight, 'there I was, upside down, nothing on the clock except the maker's name and that was in French'