I just listened again...and I heard it again. The pilot was on the left side of the runway because the AirBoss told the pilot to break left AFTER he had the RC flyer hover to the left of the runway. I also caught something else this time, and that was that after breaking left and finding out he'd been directed right in to the RC plane, the Biplane ROLLED hard right and then corrected just in time to avoid the runway, which he very nearly hit with his RIGHT wing from the roll. There was pretty much no reason other than pure luck that he and his passenger lived through that. It was a screw-up of monumental proportions. Probably from all directions.

And I agree, maybe a slap on the wrist, maybe a fine, maybe somebody will pay for damages. But that Pilot won't have his ticket pulled by the FAA when there was such a monumental lapse of all communications, and especially when the AirBoss directed him to break left (and into the RC plane). The guy did what he was told, when he was told to. As did the RC flyer. If he'd stayed straight down the center of the runway he'd have flown past the RC plane. It all still comes down to the AirBoss being an incompetent.

The other thing I caught...and I'm pleased by it...is that the first words out of the RC flyer's mouth was "Nobody said anything. I could have killed that pilot!" That came before he started b*tching about losing all the money he had in his plane, which we all would have done after a few minutes.

What a fiasco.

~ Jim ~ [X(]