I've been trying to talk our club into putting up safety benches.

The usual response I recieve is, "people shouldn't be starting their planes on a table".

Unfortunately that's exactly what they do, because there are no safety benches around, particularly the older guys...

When I point this out, all I get is a "they should stop this practice"... uhm ok... but all of the training instructors do exactly the same thing.

The problem is that most of the club officers fly larger scale planes 33% up planes, so they are disinterested in the needs of the smaller plane flyers.