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I agree with everything you state. I say it's good policy to not leave your engine ready to run. All the stories I hear from not only engines firing from bumping the prop. But also from people who...

So you never look down the barrel of a gun when you are cleaning it? Its broken down. You do not get it.

Do not use a switch to kill the engine and no way to make a mistake. Why just why would...

My point as to this post. People handle unloaded guns and put pics of it in magazines all the time. No one says a word about safety. But lean on a prop, put a pic in a magazine and now someone...

Just like a gun I respect it even when its empty. Same with a prop. But do you leave a loaded gun laying around? Why would you leave a loaded engine laying around? All the stories are of just that....

I agree. But we remove the bullets from not only the gun but the chamber for a reason. Why in the world would you leave a cylinder ready to fire. All these examples you speak of was just that. A...

Why I say kill your engine by starving it for fuel. This would have never happened had the pilot done this. This story makes a good point for this. Would you leave a bullet in the camber. you are...

Please explain how leaving the carb empty is hard on it? On my new to me airplane it's been setting now going on 6 months. We never drained the carb and I am worried about this. Many times I have let...

I come around my hangar and my flying buddy put his car right in front of my taxi way. I have no brakes on my airplane. As I come up I hit the off switch and nothing. She just keeps on running. I...

If I just had said gun in my hands, took all ammo from it and broke it down if it was a shot gun you bet. Point that gun at me all you want. Just like when I kill my engine. I NEVER shut the engine...

I believe in both pics the engine is off, no one in the cockpit. I would think the mags are off and the fuel not only shut off but in the Max lean position.

The other day I did some work on my...