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Old 04-13-2010 | 07:00 PM
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Default RE: Kindness Dangerous?

Our airfield had just put in "safety stands" to hold the models up off the ground for starting. A friend started his model and the glow driver vibrated off and tipped onto the stand and started to roll off. He instinctivly reached for it to prevent it from falling . . . right through the spinning prop.

Would not have been a problem if he had been starting on the grass like we were used to. Just a change in the whole "ritual" threw him off. But that's because we get used to doing things by reflex as much as by conscious thought.

Pay attention out there.