A new proscription: Don't do this at the airport

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My grandfather (who is a member of the beech/bonanza owners group) forwarded this to me from another member:

Here are pictures of a Piper after it got away from the pilot who was
handpropping due to a dead battery.
The plane taxi off on its on but was stopped by the concrete barriers at the
pumps.


The prop broke off at the crank and landed on top of a hangar some distance
away


http://www.referenceonly.com/prop/

That's one hell of a free spinning prop!

Jason
 
HPNPilot1200 said:
My grandfather (who is a member of the beech/bonanza owners group) forwarded this to me from another member:

Here are pictures of a Piper after it got away from the pilot who was
handpropping due to a dead battery.
The plane taxi off on its on but was stopped by the concrete barriers at the
pumps.


The prop broke off at the crank and landed on top of a hangar some distance
away


http://www.referenceonly.com/prop/

That's one hell of a free spinning prop!

Jason
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wow. That's pretty bad. Why do people keep doing this stuff?
 
I wonder what the handpropping skill level was at the time.

Let's see:
Someone else at the controls.
and/or
Brakes set.
Tail tiedown rope with a secure slip knot.
Chocks anyone?
Throttle set to minimal setting required to start and idle and friction locked in place. (bonus points for a bungee cord pulling the throttle to idle)
If possible, prime like crazy then mixture to cutoff.

It's not really that hard to keep the plane from getting away.

Thought before action if one has time...

IMHO...
 
I've heard of this happening at Santa Monica only this time the hand propped plane crossed the active runway (very busy airport) and collided with a plane on the other side.

BTW I've seen the pictures Ande posted with an explanation of a not so amicalble divorce and an ex-spouse with a chain saw, note the cuts are almost parallel.

Joe
 
Areeda said:
BTW I've seen the pictures Ande posted with an explanation of a not so amicalble divorce and an ex-spouse with a chain saw, note the cuts are almost parallel.
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That was a mess in Australia a few years ago. The cuts are too parallel and too clean for a chain saw. Actually what happened was that someone hand propped another plane and it got away from them and ran up under that one from behind with way too high of a throttle setting. (full power IIRC) Follow the hack marks from the tail. That's prop damage.

We don't need to be doing that nonsense. Just set the brakes and put a good slip knot on the tail tiedown. If one is in too big of a hurry to secure the plane, one is in too big of a hurry period.

A better picture of the hack job:
 
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fgcason said:
If one is in too big of a hurry to secure the plane, one is in too big of a hurry period.
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In the words of my father, there is always time for safety.
 
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