ORIGINAL: 3dsky
I have to agree with Airplane400’s response to jeffee. It was my first response to the video, and I cannot type what my true feeling are here. This incident gives another reason to hate guys that fly 3D. 3D pilots just hang in the way over the runway, this time it just happened to be a full size active runway. I do not care what the Air boss said the RC pilot should have seen that the plane was coming down the runway and held off flying until the FS landed, the FS was landing so why would you take up the RC planeThe guy shooting the video had time to film the FS coming down the runway. ? Sorry I do not see how this made sense.
I watched the video on the Corvette car club web site and I also read news reports and like most reporting everyone puts there spin on it and it never looks good to the public. “Toy airplane hits Full Size plane” No matter what comes out of the investigation the public will never read what officially happened and who was at fault.
The RC pilots that think risky demo flying helps sell the sport to the public will never help us keep fields or our right to fly RC. I think the risky full size flying that we see at air shows also is a bad idea, and it puts that activity at risk also.
Thank God that no one got hurt.
I don't really care for 3D, boring. But I don't see why hovering over an active FS runway is a problem as long as there is a set time for this, the FS pilots are informed, the air boss is competent, and the pilot has a spotter. I can see how the pilot might have thought he was OK as both the air boss and video photographer could act as spotters, but because they were not a DECICATED spotter they did not do a proper job.