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I don't see in either incident where the starting bench was the problem.
Ditto. Ditto, and DITTO
Sounds like you have an over-zealous Safety Officer.
My club is very small, so we don't have a lot of hard rules. We don't even have a Safety Officer. But we DO use common sense.
Any time an engine is running, we make people who are standing in the immediate area move to a place BEHIND the prop.
I mean really, is it too hard to figure out that if a prop lets go it's going to move forward out out to the side?
No one is going to get upset if you say, "Hey Joe, step back here before I rev this thing up" (Unless of course, his name isn't Joe
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