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Old 14th Nov 2015, 08:21
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Capot
 
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During the pre-flight and when pushing or pulling a plane back into the hangar
Once again, as we dinosaurs know well, this is fine just so long as you know that turning a prop through a compression can cause a hot engine to fire with the mags switched off.

I shudder when I see students assiduously doing their pre-flight and grabbing the prop to give it a turn on an aircraft that was landed and vacated 15 minutes before by the previous user, and I look away when I see people grabbing a hot prop to move an aircraft that landed 5 minutes before. Trust me; it happens.

It's Darwin Award territory.
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