And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Yow! Good thing the brake was on and the prop didn't pull the plane forward into our Darwin award wanna be.
If you don't know what makes 'em go - you shouldn't be flyin' em.
But hey - that's just me. I guess I'm old-school that way.
I'm that way with any of my conveyances (car, bike, boat, etc) and tools (computers included). Taught my kids to have at least a *basic* idea of how ANY technology they use works. They may not know how to fix it - but they'll have a much better chance of knowing if the repair technician is BS'ing them or not.
It's probably like most errors. You get away with it 999 out of 1000 times. It's the last one that gets ya. He may have been careless and left the mag switch on. Or he may have taken the word of another that it was off, or there may have been a fault in the system. I'm glad for his sake that he wasn't leaning into it during the pull through.
What a buffoon.
ReplyDeleteWhat the heck was he doing turning a prop with the ignition on. Lucky he didn't lose any body parts.
ReplyDeleteThat is what around here we call a dumbass
ReplyDeleteIt got him going. " I just fly em. I don't know what makes em go "
ReplyDeleteIf you don't know what makes 'em go - you shouldn't be flyin' em.
ReplyDeleteBut hey - that's just me. I guess I'm old-school that way.
I'm that way with any of my conveyances (car, bike, boat, etc) and tools (computers included). Taught my kids to have at least a *basic* idea of how ANY technology they use works. They may not know how to fix it - but they'll have a much better chance of knowing if the repair technician is BS'ing them or not.
It's probably like most errors. You get away with it 999 out of 1000 times. It's the last one that gets ya. He may have been careless and left the mag switch on. Or he may have taken the word of another that it was off, or there may have been a fault in the system. I'm glad for his sake that he wasn't leaning into it during the pull through.
ReplyDeleteLost a young man on the Saratoga from a prop hit. There wasn't anything left but to hose off the deck. This fool is very, very lucky.
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