One of our members habitually starts his engines at full throttle, reaches over the prop to remove the glow starter, then reaches for the transmitter to idle the engine down. Don't ask me why. We finally talked him into using a retainer, and he got the kind with the hinge. You start the plane, get ready, then pull the plane back. The hinge lets the big "U" flop down on the ground, then you can taxi forward.

He got the engine started backwards! Plane backed up real fast, the retainer flopped down, plane kept backing up, into an assembly bench. I'm glad the bench was there.

True story.

Dave Olson