I saw Roger W at White Waltham back in the early 1980s. He had flown in using his wife’s single engine aircraft (so we thought at the time). He parked next to the PA-28 I was trying to get started by bashing the hell out of an old and very stuck starter solinoid with my shoe, on a very old and stuck Cherokee 140. He gave me a very strange look. I guess it did look strange but what can a pilot do when faced with a stuck solinoid? RW’s aeroplane didn’t look like it had ever suffered a stuck starter solinoid in its short and gleaming life. 😉

Sarah