ORIGINAL: wjvail
It's only a matter of time.
How long? How much time?
It's been 45 year of working with propellers....
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.
Do you not agree that these measures would clearly improve safety not only for fliers but club members and bystanders? Be careful how you answer. They are all well established safety protocol in other fields and as Jack notes in the below quote, you might be a jack***** for failing to adopt them....
... stop for a second and imagine if you did, and it was all because you were too stupid, proud, egotistical, lazy, stubborn or whatever other excuse you make, would you feel proud because you never gave in to taking a mere 30 seconds to be safe or like a total stubborn jack*****?