A buddy and I were out flying today, and on landing for lunch at a fairly busy airport café, we watched as *every single aircraft* that was parked there started their engines while in the tiedown spots, essentially blasting all over the planes behind them (including ours...grrrr).
I'm not talking King Airs or TBMs or other large aircraft which are cumbersome or difficult to pull out onto the alleyway; these were Cessnas, Bonanzas, Cirruses (Cirri?), etc.
I'm prepping my plane for paint now, and I'm starting to take a very dim view of people who can't be bothered to pull their aircraft out so that they don't sandblast the planes behind them. I'll be taking an especially hard line once its painted.
How do you all deal with this? I realize you can't run out there and stop a pilot in the midst of his startup when you see him do it, while you're eating lunch. But if you're there at your plane when this is about to happen (as we were with two old geezers in a Cessna immediately "behind" my friends brand-new RV), what do you do or say to "educate" them and resolve this annoying (and potentially damaging) situation?
I'm not talking King Airs or TBMs or other large aircraft which are cumbersome or difficult to pull out onto the alleyway; these were Cessnas, Bonanzas, Cirruses (Cirri?), etc.
I'm prepping my plane for paint now, and I'm starting to take a very dim view of people who can't be bothered to pull their aircraft out so that they don't sandblast the planes behind them. I'll be taking an especially hard line once its painted.
How do you all deal with this? I realize you can't run out there and stop a pilot in the midst of his startup when you see him do it, while you're eating lunch. But if you're there at your plane when this is about to happen (as we were with two old geezers in a Cessna immediately "behind" my friends brand-new RV), what do you do or say to "educate" them and resolve this annoying (and potentially damaging) situation?
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