ORIGINAL: BarracudaHockey
I would rather dead stick a plane any day than to take a chance of it still running when it hit or flying off into never never land at a high idle.
Please dont take this the wrong way, this is a general feeling on the issue and not directed at you. If you're not capable of dead sticking a plane, or willing to sacrafice one in the name of spectator/bystander ect safety, then you don't belong flying a giant scale plane.
Strangely you say, "not directed at you" but then use the pronoun you... twice. C'mon man, it was directed at me, eh.
Your opinion is duly noted. And... I noted forty years ago that any one who had soloed, is capable of landing dead stick.
Have you made your feelings known to the AMA and IMAA that their rules are inadequate for safe flight of giant scale? I note you are sometimes a CD... do you require your feelings/rules applied to fliers at events you direct or are the AMA and IMAA rules used?