Information sure does get messed up!!!
According to the original thread and person involved, there wasn't a first pass???
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/s...&postcount=321
"As I stated prior I had no idea a full size was in the air. The Airboss said NOTHING !!"
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/s...&postcount=248
"Jim, I was involved due to the fact I never knew there was a full scale plane in the air, I was slotted for demo, Airboss said fire up, all is good, never a mention to full size plane in the air, never! Next thing ya know im told to punch & duck !! What the heck !!"
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/s...&postcount=162
"FG Bro's straight up, totally glad no one was injured or worse, I want nothing in return yes I was upset at first. Also, I had clearance to fly at this time of the demo slot, and was never aware of this plane in the air, nor was I told !! Till the second where I was told to basically punch It and duck,"
I think the report was distorted. I'll bet anything that the first pass that the report talks about is actually when the incident occurred and the 2nd being the landing.
Surely the airboss and hopefully the rc pilot would have had enough sense to land after 1 pass had already been made!!!!
ORIGINAL: NM2K
Just think, if the organizers had chosen an R/C pilot that knew how to do something other than hover, there would have been no incident at all.
Ed Cregger
Can't agree with you Ed... If it would have been any other plane it could have been much worse!!!! If a jet or giant scale warbird would have hit head on.... What if another pilot would have been coming by in a knife edge etc??
These pictures go to show how out of control everything got!! Right after the collision you have people walking across the runway and a full scale T6 taxying...
