We are debating a safety issue here. If all we do is save the use of one handor maybe someone'sability to continue his livelyhoodin the next twenty years it will be worth it. I have personally seen electric airplanes do things they were not intended to do in regards to throttle movement. You guys are a pretty smart group. There are definately ways to make it work. I use 4mm bullet connectors. I intend to use a blank plastic housing (no connectors) that goes on the ESC side as soon asI disconnect the battery and tie a 5lb fishline to it and hang a flag outside the airplane with "remove before flight" written on it. Canopy will still go on and the CDand all around can see at an instant that the airplane is inert. Easy, cheap and quick. There are many more ways.

While others continue to say this is a silly rule IMHO it is even greater silliness to debate a safety issue. All fine and dandy to say this is a solution waiting for an issue but when someone is severly injured in a future mishap (the old law.....if it can happen it will happen) the guys standing around will mutter......well, maybe it would have been a good idea. Much better to be proactive than reactive.

Like it or not, we are some of the leaders and trend setters at our local fields. Trickle down effect always comes from the people who are looked up to. Because of this rule, and if it is used diligently at the local flying field level, maybe, just maybe a few sport fliers will follow suit and start making sure their electrics are inert and preventing some of the near mishaps that I have witnessed and I'm sure a few of you guys have seen as well.

This is my 2 bits worth on the subject.

Murray Johnson