ORIGINAL: fozjared
thats right, i fly battery and fuel planes, and enjoy different things about each of them! the one thing i can say about safety and the comparisons, say you have to reverse your throttle, what happens when you reverse it and the electric springs to life and gets you, a fuel plane cant spring to life just because the throttle went to wide open, there is no way a fuel engine can hurt you until you crank it, not so with electric.. my .02!
That's why you should always remove the prop or have the plane secured in a glow engine starting stand before making any adjustments like that. This often happens when trying to match throw direction and trim of a buddy box to the transmitter.
Complacency is the big danger. Always treat an armed electric plane as if the engine was running.