Tatto said:
Other necessities are your sun glasses, a small first aid kit, simple comon tools and your prop/plug wrench.


After my first day of flight, I had enough experience to totally agree with this statement. Upon staging my plane, immediately after we (my instructor and I) fueled it, I applied the starter and got a face full of glow fuel. We had primed the engine a little to much and as a result the fuel shot straight out the carb and splattered all over the place. Had I not been wearing my stylish, yet protective, $4 safety sunglasses purchased from Home Depot, I could have been in some serious pain, if not worse.

Immediately thereafter my instructor asked if I had a glow plug wrench so we could remove the glow plug and empty the engine, and of course I didn't.

Bottom line... the sunglasses stay in the field kit, and a glow plug wrench will be added by next weekend. A nice shop towel will be thrown in for good measure as well.