Renkou1
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Buried in a few messages are references to hand proping, leg swinging or not, etc;
This a.m. the outside air temp was 32 degrees F when I started my J3. No leg swing.
One reason for this is my left foot was wedged against the front of the right tire and my left hand was on the black stripe / front door opening tubing.... only two feet from the cracked throttle. Maybe having hold of the aircraft gives me some purchase. I've been doing the proping on 'little' engines this way since my days of float flying.
Proping from the front leaves one along way from the controls on any land or sea plane. The leg swing is definitely needed on bigger engines. As a youth I started a Pratt and Whitney 1340 daily. Without the leg swing adding to my 165 pound inertia there would have been no starts. When I am teaching the leg swing method, I teach that the leg swing is the first step away from the propellar.... I'd just as soon admire the newly running engine from 5 feet away as as 2 feet away.
All guns are loaded, all mags are hot.... even if the keys are in you pocket. ( If one of the wires to the switch has an open / break in it the engine will run. Found this to be true about half a dozen times.
Just my opinion here. Has worked for me for 45 years so far. R
This a.m. the outside air temp was 32 degrees F when I started my J3. No leg swing.
One reason for this is my left foot was wedged against the front of the right tire and my left hand was on the black stripe / front door opening tubing.... only two feet from the cracked throttle. Maybe having hold of the aircraft gives me some purchase. I've been doing the proping on 'little' engines this way since my days of float flying.
Proping from the front leaves one along way from the controls on any land or sea plane. The leg swing is definitely needed on bigger engines. As a youth I started a Pratt and Whitney 1340 daily. Without the leg swing adding to my 165 pound inertia there would have been no starts. When I am teaching the leg swing method, I teach that the leg swing is the first step away from the propellar.... I'd just as soon admire the newly running engine from 5 feet away as as 2 feet away.
All guns are loaded, all mags are hot.... even if the keys are in you pocket. ( If one of the wires to the switch has an open / break in it the engine will run. Found this to be true about half a dozen times.
Just my opinion here. Has worked for me for 45 years so far. R
