ORIGINAL: TexasSkyPilot
ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
ORIGINAL: DocYates
Sport Pilot, perhaps you should read it again. Does it matter if it was a go-around or a low pass? Not really. If there is an airplane in the immediate area, you need to land. That is the take home message. Any time there is a full scale plane in the area, you never know the intention of the pilot, or what might happen to him, so you need to clear the area. It is plain and simple, they have the right of way.
There is no rule that the RC plane land just because there is a FS plane 500 feet above him. It only says give right of way. That said model RC aircraft and FS aircraft have operated safely at a distance a lot closer than 500 feet.
Gee, then. Do you think it had to be in writing that he move his RC aircraft off of the runway until the all-clear was given? Common sense would have it grounded. Having it in the air at all created an element of risk.
Of course, common sense would have given him at LEAST one spotter , and rules discussed before the flight to accomodate this unprecendented incident where a Full-Scale pilot comes home to the planned Full-Scale Fly-In fundraiser with his biplane and wishes to do a fly-by or two, maybe even throw in some smoke, and then land.
Think I'll do a video commentary.
~ Jim ~
Well now you are repeating what was said in the AMA letter, which I said from the start I agree with.