ORIGINAL: TexasSkyPilot
Excellent video! You did a great job of flying her. Loved the pilot's head turning at the end. I'd have put that at the beginning, just to draw them in.....(it's the novelist in me....draw them in, draw them in...) but it made for a nice ending.
I agree that the RC pilot in the collision should have had it on the ground immediately, that's also what I would have done. Full-Scale pilots can't know what we're doing, and vice-versa. At our Full-Scale field where we fly, if a plane should arrive unexpectedly and we cannot get out of the way, there is no choice; we are to pound it into the ground if we have to so the runway is clear. Otherwise, with the same amount of warning that we saw given in the video, we would move way over to the far side and circle there. Not a paltry 20 feet off the runway.
Pretty much what we saw happen there was people treating a Full-Scale airport and runway as though planes don't land there. And they were doing it during a Full-Scale fly-in!
Now, that video was taken right at the time of the collision, so I can't state with certainty that the 3D pilot never took responsibility for his actions...or lack thereof. He might have thought about it and thought, ''I shouldn't have listened to that guy, I should have put it on the ground right away. I knew better.'' I hope that was the case, but even if it was, there are a hundred idiots waiting in line to cause the next crash due to negligence and incompetence.
But I'll make a video about them when their fifteen minutes of fame arrives....
Beautiful Bipe, Pete.
~ Jim ~ [sm=49_49.gif]
Thanks Jim.
My wife took the final video and I wasn't aware that she was filming. I agree my pilot bust does draw them in, I was invited to so many shows this year and I wasn't able to attend any of them. But you did see that I proved your point that some of us do become a little nervous when some people start flying 3D planes around our planes... especially the ones that took us forever to complete.
I agree 100% with most all of you commenting about what I Posted from the AMA, and I agree 110% with you Jim on this subject so far. God I hate to think of nose diving my planes in to the ground.[
] But if that's what it took for everyones safety and the protection of everyones privilage to fly, then I would do it. But Man, it would really hurt.
It's like the stories we read about- pilot loosing control of his aircraft and refusing to bail out because his plane was diving too close to a school.
I'm glad we have the AMA looking out for us. I don't think I'd ever run for AMA office, I'd be pulling my hair out every time I had to do damage control. Like you said Jim, " You'll make a video about them when their fifteen minutes of fame arrives."
Seems like every year somebody is doing something to get their 15 minutes of fame.
JMHO
Pete