Gentlemen:
This has become quite an interesting thread to say the least!
I want to interject some thoughts and stress a very important point to my original post and point of question.
ORIGINAL: Bryan McLarty
My question is simply this, As the event CD, do you have the right to orderthe pilot to relinquish his transmitter to hiscaller or do you have theright toask for the transmitter if the situation seems to putother pilots and spectators in danger. Because this was a fairly slow multi-engined aircraft, there seemed to be time to act on this. The danger is clear with a large, heavy, multi-engined aircraftin this case! What else would have been proper to do?</p>
If any of you were in the rare situation where you had the opportunity to witness, quickly assess and judge a series of dangerous violations and could act without hesitation, would you not do ANYTHING to avert a potential disaster? What if the elderly pilot lost control and flew into a spectator crowd or the pit area full of pilots? What if your family, your child, or your grandchild were in that crowd?
Is there a point in which you think to yourself, "liability and cost of the airplane be damned"! I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! Or, are we such a litigious society that those thoughts have been pummeled from our minds and sense of "doing the right thing"? Has it become a world of what happens, just happens and it's that other guys fault. Sucks to be him! Glad it's not me!
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