Texas Flying Legends Reno 2017

Taxying with the engine off does seem a bit of a risk for several reasons, as already mentioned, another is that you have lost the ability to give a blast of power and a boot full of rudder to make a turn.
Also people cannot hear you coming, perhaps unlikely on a noisy ramp but possible. Many many moons ago at LHR I was working on the ramp when I heard a squeak, squeak, squeak and looking up the LHR/LGW shuttle BN Islander was taxying towards me and its parking slot with both engines stopped, the only sound was its squeaky brakes.

Richard

“Daddy, when I grow up I want to become a pilot!”

“You’ll have to make a choice son, you can’t do both…”

🙂

Hi Cabbage
It seemed to be a bit of a game going on at Reno – we saw quite a few pilots cutting the engine whilst still taxying down the ramp and then coasting in to the parking spot,the spitfire pilot did it in Jasons clip as well but we saw it quite a few times over the weekend.
Normal shutdown procedure would be to bring the a/c to a halt and then increase rpm to clear the plugs,definitely not a good idea to cut the engine whilst still taxying for a few reasons – one being the clearing of the plugs and the other is that you are then reliant on the brake accumulator for brake pressure,much safer to have the engine running and still supplying hydraulic pressure.
It was not unknown for RAF jet jockeys to shut down the engine whilst taxying in – I guess they think it looks cool and impresses people but I guess fighter pilots never really grow up 🙂

Interesting that the P-40 taxied in with its engine stopped.
Not normal practice I would have thought.

Lovely video, Jason. Great view you had from up there! Thanks very much for posting 🙂