Elad:
ORIGINAL: elad
My main idea for the starter box is twofold. 1) To make it safer as far as reaching around to miss the spinning prop during start-up, removal of the glow plug heater and tuning of the engine...
After the engine starts, you put the starter back in its cradle, or on the ground. Depends on how fancy you are. Then you walk around to the rear of the plane and take it from your assistant to do the engine adjustments. Your time for putting the atarter down and walking around to the back of the plane is not a delay, it's engine warm-up time.
...and 2) To add longevity to the starter. ...placing the thing inside a wood box, painted white, raised off the ground somewhat and adding ventillation holes would contribute to longer life for the starter.
It would definitely cool more rapidly, but when everything is working right the starter is only running a few seconds, it doesn't have time to get hot.
...I was hoping to get a flight simulator for a few hundred bucks. He said his simulator cost $30,000,000. Yep million!
Your simulator does indeed cost a couple hundred bucks. It comes in a package that says "Real Flight Generation Two, with Interlink Controller."
I definitely don't intend to take the starter box/ flight box out with the plane to try a solo before my instruction is finished.
You should not go alone under any circumstances, for safety reasons. I'm afraid this is one that is honored in the breach, I have never hesitated to set up and fly when I was first at the field. That is somewhat mitigated by my knowing there will be more arrivals shortly after I get there. It is unusual for me to complete a flight before someone else comes driving up. But I still should not do it.
And if I think about it, I guess flying is like some other things, hunting, fishing and swimming where it's wise to use the "Buddy System."
Definitely.
Bill.