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RV-8A Ground Accident - Feb 15, 2020

My God, that has got to be terminally embarrassing. Glad there were no serious injuries other than that.
 
Hate hearing this but at least he was not hurt. It could have been far worse. Obviously there was no intent to hand prop start. I have some experience with a J3 no starter. Decades ago a plane parked next to mine killed the pilot who tried to solo hand prop his plane. I was not there, and the pilot was not found for some time, because no one was around.

Personally would not intentionally hand-prop start larger higher compression engine, especially a trike. We all have turned the prop by hand for one reason or another. Like a Gun consider it loaded always. My Piper had a battery plug on the fuselage so you could charge and jump the plane behind the wing. That is something builders may want to consider.

Here is a YouTube of a Cirrus hand-prop runaway (no one hurt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KpOg9Ci284

This is a pretty good how to hand prop video. Seems like everything I have been taught: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqPtqvU9mg (he says something funny at 8:53)
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