Originally posted by ProfLooney
Yes I understand their duties it is the ones who dont care and like i said whining to the AMA about a cd that ignores stuff like that wont go very far when all he has to do is have a bunch of people that like him and was affected positively by him turning his head on his side. Who will the AMA listen to 1 or 2 "Whiners" or 15 or 20 guys that didnt see anything that was done wrong? Now the AMA says no 3D at any but Imac events and someone is allowed to do it it is a lot easier to get the attention of disciplinary people where they can say it is law no can do than well its the cds event and if HE thought there wasnt a problem then there was non.
See its not that it wont be up to the CD but it will make them more accountable with easy to point out turning the other way. We wouldnt need stuff like this if we had responsable people out there but they so worried abt the weight of the model that can POSSIBLY cause a catastrophe but ignore some idiot with a 35 or 40% IMAC plane hovering a few feet from a crowd or in someone elses flight path. CAN YOU SAY MORONS i mean raise the weight limit to say 70 lbs now how many 70 lb planes do you think would be out there compared to how many idiots right now are out there with their 40% 3D aircraft now which one do you think is more dangerous a heavy plane that is normally flown in a scale controlled manner and has a small chance of going into a crowd or a 40% imac plane flying in the crowds face
do the math on risk factor I think you would agree that they are even more dangerous than a plane deemed as dangerous just because of weight.
Joe
Joe,
Another new rule will not solve the problem! There is already a rule on how close a hovering aircraft can get to other people so that door has been closed.
Part (all?) of the problem is the failure for there to be any effective way to provide more than simple guidance to a straying CD. If a CD insists that HE controls everything and insists on allowing ALL Safety codes to be broken, all we can do is remove him from the AMA. The way things are currently written, it is an all or nothing proposition.
With SOME of the folks we have on the AMA EC, that probably is the right way to do things. There seems to be a building amount of evidence that a couple on the EC will use their position to damage members they dislike and thereby injure the AMA as a whole.