On Wed, 16 May 2007 21:39:54 -0700, Don Tuite
wrote:

Now you holler "Hot!, Brakes!" (assuming somebody's in the cockpit --
otherwise you switch the mags to hot and check the chocks and tiedown.

With me, it's BRAKES! CRACKED! (referring to the throttle), HOT!

Reach up, pads of your fingers just over the top of the blade. Left
leg on ground, right leg swings forward and smartly back at the same
time that you snap the blade down. The leg swing propels your body
backward, away from the propeller arc.

Huh. With me it's the left leg that swings. Then the right leg turns
me farther back and to the left, out of the propeller arc.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford