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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Checking the oil. 
Most non geared fixed pitch airplane propellers "windmill" when the engine is not firing as long as it is moving at decent airspeed. IOW, if the engine quit and he got the prop to stop by slowing his airspeed, he would simply just need to put the nose down to regain some airspeed and the prop would start turning again on its own. |
I agree, it's hard to get the prop to stop unless you've shut the engine off at a spin entry. (Or suffered a catastrophic failure, in which case you might as well stay inside) That said, I would MUCH rather stand the airplane on its nose than climb out of the cabin. There must be story to that photo. . . which we will probably never know!