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Old 10-19-2010 | 11:29 PM
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Default RE: An Incident with Lessons for All of Us

I feel the RC pilot and "Air boss" is to blame.

FS pilots have the right of way "period" at any air field or private airport, end of story. FAA will rule this.

The reason why is what if the pilot had radio issues, mechanical issues, etc he must land. In this case the pilot stated his intentions by flying over the air field that he needed to land, the first pass was ignored by the air boss and RC pilot whom should have landed not knowing why that plane flew over. FS has right of way.

Here is an example of plain stupidity in my own back yard regarding water bombers and leasure crafts on lakes. There was a forrest fire on crown land. This lake is populated, and in plain sight on the horrizon was smoke. The news did say firebans were in place and all.

The water bomber was cabable of scooping from the lake, but the boaters stopped dead in the water to admire the site, and also just kept skit skatting across the lake where the bomber wanted to go. So the bomber called off the run due to stupidity and had to make the 1 hr trip back to base to reload.

very sad, 2 examples of classic stupidity on part of the human race, always what if's and why me, why not do that wa wa wa crap.

vent done. I hope the RC pilot and air boss are both sued in this case.

BTW, it would have cost the FS pilot a load of dough to land else where... bet alot of you don't know that. It is called a landing fee...