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Vindicated: The Rule with the Murphy's Law Chancre on It
http://down.westmont.edu/pipermail/a...ne/011404.html
A northwesterner is criminally cited for handpropping his aircraft without a competent person at the controls. Apparently old news but still salient. |
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King County can 2 lips, fully puckered, kiss my a$$
Next I suppose they'll go after the John Deere and Model T owners that have to hand crank their machines to get them going! Big brother thinks they have to hold everybody's hand so they don't hurt themselves. At least today, you don't have to worry about hurting anybody else at an airport since there is never anyone around anyway. Pretty hard to put a competent pilot in your airplane to start up if nobody is around... God I love these self-righteous government officials that have to do all they can to justify their jobs. Scott Still hand-proppin' in WI jls wrote: http://down.westmont.edu/pipermail/a...ne/011404.html A northwesterner is criminally cited for handpropping his aircraft without a competent person at the controls. Apparently old news but still salient. |
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Title 15, Section 15.16.110 of the King County code states, "Except aircraft in control of authorized maintenance shops, no aircraft engine should be started or run unless a pilot or mechanic is attending the controls." One pilot found out the consequences of this somewhat unique ordinance when, after starting his aircraft, he was issued a criminal citation by a deputy sheriff. Sounds rather straight forward that this is talking about leaving an engine and prop running unattended (walking far away from it), not about how one starts it and throttle proximity. What was this sheriff doing there anyway? Sounds like he had a gripe with aircraft, or maybe noise complaints from nearby residents, so he looked for a code for the express purpose of finding someone to give a ticket to. Was he like, right there standing next to the guy, daring him not to start it up or else? Yep, hand-propping outside the cockpit is definitely a "not-in-control" and extremely dangerous situation. Says who? Right, it's left up to the interpretation of uneducated law enforcement. Wise... very wise. Hope the guy was exonerated for his "intolerable, stupid, and publicly endangering act." Dean A. Scott, mfa --------------------------------------- School of Visual Art and Design southern adventist university --------------------------------------- http://www.southern.edu/~dascott |
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next they'll be citing those folks with a cold-weather remote control
starter in their car... |
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Hey, If you need to bail out of your plane cuz it's on fire, and you happen
to be wearing a chute, make sure you stop the prop first, OK? "Bill Chernoff" wrote in message news:Rg1Re.334716$5V4.320622@pd7tw3no... next they'll be citing those folks with a cold-weather remote control starter in their car... |
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"Steve Foley" wrote in message news:AL1Re.13526$cY.6810@trndny06... Hey, If you need to bail out of your plane cuz it's on fire, and you happen to be wearing a chute, make sure you stop the prop first, OK? "Bill Chernoff" wrote in message news:Rg1Re.334716$5V4.320622@pd7tw3no... next they'll be citing those folks with a cold-weather remote control starter in their car... Apples and cumquats. They've tried to get through to you libertarians that you have to have a competent person at the controls or at least have the beast tied down. What's so difficult about that, or firing it up from behind the prop with the door swung 180 degrees, so you're at the throttle and ignition? Dingnab loonytarians think they have a right to unleash a mad bull on the neighborhood, and I got a lot of loonytarian blood myself. There's a true story about several one-armed flight instructors in a small area of Pennsylvania, and another true story about the lady Cub-owner who always expected her instructor to prop the Cub for her, but failed her checkride because she expected the FAA examiner to prop it for her too --- because she had never tried it. Then there was the Taylorcraft owner, another lady kind and naive, who let a student climb into her plane as she was pulling the prop through. She had the engine set at idle but it inexplicably roared to life. She tried to arrest it by grabbing the strut, which merely helped it arc into several other unlucky aircraft. This one rings true with me because I don't know how many times I have gotten into a Taylorcraft and all of a sudden gotten an immediate shot of adrenaline when it made a quick roaring bee-line for a hangar or a Baron on the ramp. You're all excited about getting seated, settling in and flying, got your mind on those belts, intercom, and headsets --- it never occurs to you that you just inadvertently firewalled the throttle with your knee. In northern Australia a pilot decided to take some children for a ride in the Salvation Army's 182. The battery was down so he got out and hand-propped it. It got away and was getting airborne but was stopped by trees and destroyed. Thankfully the children were not badly injured. |
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From the site you quoted:
Title 15, Section 15.16.110 of the King County code states, "Except aircraft in control of authorized maintenance shops, no aircraft engine should be started or run unless a pilot or mechanic is attending the controls." It doesn't say anything about 'the beast being tied down'. " jls" wrote in message ... Apples and cumquats. They've tried to get through to you libertarians that you have to have a competent person at the controls or at least have the beast tied down. |
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"Bill Chernoff" wrote in message
news:Rg1Re.334716$5V4.320622@pd7tw3no... next they'll be citing those folks with a cold-weather remote control starter in their car... They do. Rich "It's for your own good, to prevent theft of your auto" S. Pierce County, WA |
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But it's still illegal.
"karel" wrote in message ... Someone disregarding that rule, for whatever reason, could and should at least show common sense. |
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"Bill Chernoff" wrote in message news:Rg1Re.334716$5V4.320622@pd7tw3no... next they'll be citing those folks with a cold-weather remote control starter in their car.. There are places where leaving your car running (especially in the winter in the morning) is illegal. That's a fact. -- Jim in NC |
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