| Hi all! I think I can guess where you were flying this evening Wonwinglo. Yes, it's a difficult area, made more so by inconsideration. When I hover or perform low level aerobatics over the strip I wait until the air is clear and no-one is flying. Everyone catches on to this it seems, and on a busy day, like seem to fly with like, each respecting the other's discipline. But, as you have found, it only takes one inconsiderate person and it ends in chaos, and maybe for the less experienced, a crash due to the mayhem of models all over the place and being unable to hear your own engine. I've seen it a few times. And why couldn't the fun fly guy hover to the side of the strip and away from the active runway area? It's just inconsideration. Showing off, perhaps?
As to the children; well, they should have been kept well away from the strip and the surrounding area. IMHO having children near model flying is courting disaster.
The whole safety thing is becoming a mania in some places.
I hope this board doesn't become another source of long lists of safety bullitins because, frankly, I'm sick of hearing about it everywhere I turn. In America, clubs are banning 3D flying and some manoeuvres are against the AMA code. We don't really want divisions to creep into our hobby here in the UK do we? If people cannot be tolerant of one anothers discipline then we will probably see the continuing decline of aeromodelling. Fun Fly and 3D are the only areas that are attracting young blood into flying, a lot of whom move on to IMAC and pattern or large models or scale and what have you. Fun Fly and 3D are a magnet for bringing in the youngsters. Don't squash it before it starts!
Ultimately, safety boils down to common sense and consideration.
Anyway, sorry your evening session was spoiled. |