Why are there so many steps to starting an engine on a plane? Why not a turn-key start?

No worries.

As to representative, you picked a pretty fancy airplane. If you find a vid of a basic Cessna or Piper or Diamond trainer being prepped for flight that’s a much closer analog to firing up your Camry for a run to the grocery. Still a bunch more steps than a Camry though.

Start as many threads as you like. It’s not like we charge by the word. We also have this omnibus thread for all things about light planes and a smidgen about the big iron.

It’s 9 years old with 1349 posts on an endless variety of airplane topics with the most recent just a couple weeks ago. There’s a treasure trove of trivia and air adventures in that thread.

Don’t forget that once the thread is on your screen you can hit the [End] key to jump to the bottom in just a couple seconds. (That’s on a PC, there is a some Mac option-shift-whatever equivalent).