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October 9th, 2006, 09:59
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Daytona Beach, FL/North Providence, RI
Posts: 45
  |  What to do when the starter dies...
After getting my PPL about 2 weeks ago, I decided to go on another flight with a friend today. Weather's CLEAR skies all over New England. About 2 hrs before the flight, I get the call. The plane's starter died this morning and they don't have another plane to put me in. I got mad of course. So now I'm contemplating what to do today: A. Go another local airport and take pictures and beg for rides B. Go to work C. Sit at home If I beg for rides, what's a polite way to do it without sounding pushy or rude? |
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October 9th, 2006, 10:03
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Virginia is for Lovers, yacht chasing on the weekends
Posts: 1,841
| Re: What to do when the starter dies...
Hand prop it!  If you have a high res professional style camera (35mm SLR or DSLR), you could offer a high quality print of the aircraft (takeoff rotation, touchdown, static, etc) in exchange for a short flight around the area |
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October 9th, 2006, 12:12
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| Old Skool  | Re: What to do when the starter dies...
Yea, Hand start it. Its not that hard on a 150, a 172 cn be a little more stubborn. Just be careful doing it.
__________________ As a wise man said, sumb!tch flew in, sumb!tch'll fly out. Ski Hard. Party Harder. |
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October 9th, 2006, 12:40
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in a backpack.
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hand prop for the win
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October 9th, 2006, 13:32
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| Old Skool Join Date: May 2006 Location: Virginia is for Lovers, yacht chasing on the weekends
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| Re: What to do when the starter dies...
OK, so it wasn't when I said hand prop it, but really, get someone to do it who is is trained to do it and has done it before. You can always find someone that "knows" how to do it through hangar talk/lessons, but the technique is not taught very often anymore (for safety and insurance reasons) and shouldn't be attempted by everyone.I had a starter grind up a flywheel a while back as a CFI and I cancelled the lesson because I couldn't find anyone to hand prop it for me, and I sure has heck wasn't going to make my first try at it and HOPE that my brand new student was holding the brakes as instructed and wouldn't accidentally push the throttle the wrong way to set 1000 RPM after start. |
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October 9th, 2006, 13:37
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: .
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| Re: What to do when the starter dies...
Play Flight Simulator, it's basically the same thing...
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October 9th, 2006, 14:08
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| Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in a backpack.
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trolling for a.net kids?  ZOMG I HAVE TEH FLIGTH SIMULATER X DEMO!!11 AS RAEL AS IT GETS!!11!1!lol
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October 9th, 2006, 14:13
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October 9th, 2006, 14:16
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