How do you start your glow engines if you don't have some kind of gizmo that clips to the plug, and therefore that you have to reach and unclip after starting? all your planes have on-board systems?

I agree about never reaching over, under, around, and especially not through, the prop arc. I always walk around behind my plane and remove the starter, as well as making adjustments. Oddly enough, even that can get you in trouble. One of our most experienced fliers (40+ years) came in behind the plane on a friend's plane that was running rough, to help him get it started and tuned. Unfortunately, it was a pusher, and he had that millisecond long mental lapse, and got bit, times three fingers.


I'd never have figured this thread would go on for 4 pages.