ORIGINAL: Avaiojet
Was this a sanctioned AMA event?
Does it matter?
Were leaflets passed out to all participants including spectators, explaining how important it is to clear a field or runway when a pilot makes an approach to land his aircraft?
Did any individual or principal have a bull horn?
Active PA system?
I read that two passes were made. But this isn't really an issue.
Here's what everyone is missing or not giving enough thought to, and the conversation should be focused on this.
With that pilots first pass, the field and runway should have been cleared immediately. And without question or hesitation.
You would have to be a pilot, with training, to really understand this. Probably ''one'' of the reasons the conversation is all over the place.
I think what (almost) everyone is missing is that none of us were there with the radio, in the full scale, or behind the Tx of the rc plane.
All the Monday morning quarterbacks here that think they know exactly what they would have done in any of these folk's shoes
are full of it.