ORIGINAL: wjvail
What about some or all of these club rules?
- You can't put the prop on the plane until you're at the flight line.
- You can't put the battery in the plane until you're ready to throttle up.
- Battery and prop must be removed before returning to the pits.
- Establish an electric safety class to be attended by all e-fliers. Multi-media with PowerPoint of about 2 hours would be a starting point. Training is key. More is better.
- Recurrent training on a 9 month basis - 6 months after initial qual.
- E-flier safety review by senior club members on annual basis for overall safety and renewal of e-privileges.
- All flight line and pit operations require a 2nd club member as a safety observer.
- All safety violations and aircraft mishaps would require an immediate revocation of privileges until causal factors could be reviewed.
- Consider filming pit operations for review of procedures and possible recommendation for further safety improvements.
If these are actual rules adopted at actual clubs and not just tongue-in-cheek then it's dissappointing that conditions have existed that some have felt it necessary.
It's like workplace health and safety, I'm finding the phrase "As low as reasonably practical" a moving goalpost to be renegotiated whenever we have a change in OH&S staff. Very rarely do I get any "ground" back but I do my best to minimise how much ground I have to give up.
Good staff, properly trained with the correct tools and enough time to do the job is far safer than a fool with a risk assement in one hand and a rush job to be completed in the other...