Went to my field to fly today. Overcast skies but calm and 60F. Got my plane up in the air for the first flight of the day to get the feeling back and damn it was nice to land in calm wind conditions.

Getting ready for the second flight I fired up my plane and had the Tx in my right hand. Plane was ilding on the table and started to pick up my plane in my left hand after I untied it. I was wearing a baggy hooded sweatshirt and it musta caught the throttle cause in an instant my engine was full bore with my single hand holding it back. The plane jumped forward and started tipping over the edge of the table. Initial reaction was to hold the plane against the table to restrain it from getting away until I could kill the engine but as I did that it pivoted to the right and the prop ran across my left knee and it killed the engine. The hole in my leg required stitches. Basically cut through to the bone clear across my knee cap. I was pissed. Stupid - stupid - stupid. A member who's an ex-paramedic got me bandaged up. Club members helped me load up my truck and I drove myself to the ER. My instructor Nick followed me there just in case. Ended up getting 11 stitches and won't be doing much for the next week or so requiring that leg. Happy that nothing worse happened. Definitely could have been worse.

For any beginners out there - mind that throttle stick when you don't have your hand intentionally on that stick. I'm stating the obvious but still. My lesson sucked. [:@] Don't learn the hardway.

Gonna figure out another way to fire up my plane and get it on the strip without this happening again. Maybe fire it up on the ground and walk it out on the ground to the runway. Controller in my left hand and plane in the right so I can restrain the throttle stick.

Lesson learned. :-/

somegeek