For the first start of the day, I usually just plug the exhaust with my finger, grab the prop and turn it over slowly (without the glow driver powered up.. use one from Radio South that has a button to activate the thing and LED's showing glow activity) until I see fuel flow through the fuel line. I then flip it a few times to get the prime, then hit it with the electric starter. My OS 1.20 AX's always start right up. I suppose I could use the chicken stick because that's how fast it will start, but I don't.

However, once warmed up and flown once, I usually just tap the prop hard enough in the reverse direction to get it to hit the reverse compression stroke with the chicken stick and it starts right up in the forward direction. That was a little trick that my instructor taught me. Works every time. No fingers lost.

DS.